Posted on 09/30/2025 1:56:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Washington — A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled Tuesday that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio violated the First Amendment by targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation in order to strike fear into international students and curb lawful speech.
In a 161-page decision, U.S. District Judge William Young delivered a blistering assessment of the Trump administration's efforts to pursue international students who expressed pro-Palestinian views on college campuses, which he said was constitutionally protected speech.
The judge, appointed by former President Ronald Reagan, was unsparing not only in his views of Noem and Rubio's actions, but also of President Trump, who he said approves of "truly scandalous and unconstitutional suppression of free speech" on the part of two senior administration officials.
"The president's palpable misunderstanding that the government simply cannot seek retribution for speech he disdains poses a great threat to Americans' freedom of speech," he wrote.
Of Noem and Rubio, as well as other administration officials, Young wrote that they "acted in concert to misuse the sweeping powers of their respective offices to target noncitizen pro-Palestinians for deportation primarily on account of their First Amendment protected political speech," and did so through targeted deportation proceedings aimed at pro-Palestinian student activists across the country, which "continues unconstitutionally to chill freedom of speech to this day."
The judge issued his decision after holding a nine-day trial that examined whether the administration had violated the free speech rights of academic associations that sued the Trump administration for arrests, detentions and deportations of foreign students and faculty who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Young praised the witnesses who testified on behalf of the government, saying of them that they were "decent, credible, dedicated nonpartisan professionals. True patriots who, in order to do their duty, have been weaponized by..."
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Stopped reading right there.
This will get overturned
This will get overturned
And here, I thought they were deported for their behavior
Wait! A Northeast Judge ruled AGAINST Trump?!?!? Who’d have thunk it?!?!?
District court judge.
simply deport them
(and cut off the funding for their disruptive “demonstrations” ... we expect a significant drop in these evil “spontaneious” outbursts (which are patently planned, prepared, and staged with equipment, signs, and provisions all on site ahead of time in trucks.. with organizers using public address equipment powered by generators onboard the trucks)
the recent federal government announcement of an investigation (at long last, imho) vis a vis the multi-zillion dollar Soroz funding network ...could be just the ticket, imho
So they are free to call for genocide ( intifada globalized ) against Jews worldwide, build fear to walk freely on campus to classes, libraries, etc. and call for violence against the USA
Call a Wambulance
Poor wording in the headline to mention “targeted” along with a man (Trump) who had multiple assassination attempts against him, and “Palestinian” who have a habit of killing innocent civilians.
Is this judge still sitting? He should be in a nursing home. Reagan hasn’t been President for forty years.
‘A federal judge in Massachusetts
Stopped reading right there.’
Beat me to it.
‘A federal judge in Massachusetts
Stopped reading right there.’
Beat me to it.
How many times do these judges have to be embarrassed with their overturned rulings before they get the message?
Soon to be overturned by the Supreme Court.
That is a nice political speech masking as an opinions. It is worthless in the effect of law.
MSN and CNN can keep breathlessly reporting these decisions, but they are worthless at this point. The appeals and Supreme Court have almost had their fill and will simply keep overturning them.
That is a nice political speech masking as an opinions. It is worthless in the effect of law.
MSN and CNN can keep breathlessly reporting these decisions, but they are worthless at this point. The appeals and Supreme Court have almost had their fill and will simply keep overturning them.
Guests to the US are suppose to BEHAVE THEMSELVES not act like they’re in their home countries
Sorry Judge. The CR didn’t pass so you need to vacate your office tomorrow. We will provide moving trucks for your convenience.
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