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Posted on 10/01/2025 9:29:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration’s effort to deport pro-Palestinian academics is a deliberate attack on free speech meant to “strike fear” into non-citizen students and chill campus protests.
“The effect of these targeted deportation proceedings continues unconstitutionally to chill freedom of speech to this day,” U.S. District Judge William Young concluded, in a scathing, 161-page opinion that he described as the most crucial he’s delivered in his 30 years on the bench.
Young, a Reagan appointee based in Boston, did not immediately order changes to administration policies, but said he will hold further proceedings on how to rein in the practices he found to violate First Amendment free-speech rights.
The ruling is the long-awaited result of a lawsuit brought by university professors who say the Trump administration is illegally chilling free speech by targeting prominent pro-Palestinian campus activists — like Mahmoud Khalil — and others who have expressed pro-Palestinian views. It followed a two week trial that featured testimony from top Trump administration officials, who described orchestrating the arrests of these activists and taking cues from an anonymously run website.
Perhaps more remarkable than the blistering ruling is Young’s assessment of President Donald Trump himself, condemning him as a bully who “ignores everything,” engages in “hollow bragging” and uses his power and gifts of communication to strip away constitutional rights.
“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,” Young wrote, describing the courts as the most crucial bulwark to this threat.
“I fear President Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interests are not affected,” Young added. “Is he correct?”
The White House denounced the decision as “an outrageous ruling that hampers the safety and security of our nation.”
“Studying in the United States is a privilege that the Trump Administration will not allow to foreign nationals who endanger America’s national security or imperil campus safety,” White House spokesperson Liz Huston wrote.
Young has repeatedly tangled with the administration over policies he has described as discriminatory, one of a handful of old-guard Reagan-era judges to sound off about Trump’s approach to governing.
In August, two members of the Supreme Court — Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh — rebuked Young for blocking the Trump administration’s decisions to cut off medical research grants it deemed related to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The two Trump appointees said recent rulings on other grant-related cases on the high court’s emergency docket made clear Young’s ruling was impermissible.
“When this Court issues a decision, it constitutes a precedent that commands respect in lower courts,” Gorsuch wrote, joined by Kavanaugh.
Young later apologized, saying it wasn’t his intention to defy the Supreme Court, and he was simply unaware that the justices considered their emergency-docket rulings to be precedents lower courts are bound to follow.
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161 pages?
That’s a huge waste of energy, ink, paper and electricity just to justify your job.
I’d like to see his opinion overturned if for no other reason it’s bloviating style.
And, he’s a Reagan appointee.
Sigh, didn’t the Court already reverse another lower court who tried to halt this as well?
William G. Young is a RINO pimp - a Reagan appointee who “grew in office” in the Commie District of Massachusetts.
He held out till after Trump’s term, retiring at 81 years old [normal retirement age for federal judges is between 65 and 70 years old], so AutoPen Biden’s puppeteers could appoint a radical Leftist in his place.
He’s a Deep State stooge.
This guy sounds like he has a personal problem with Trump which outweighs his judicial temperament. Personal attacks on the president in a formal court decision? Way over the line.
So the judge is pro-terrorism?
A Reagan appointee who “grew in office” in the Commie District of Massachusetts.
He held out till after Trump’s term, retiring at 81 years old [normal retirement age for federal judges is between 65 and 70 years old], so AutoPen Biden’s puppeteers could appoint a radical Leftist in his place.
He held out till after Trump’s term, retiring at 81 years old [normal retirement age for federal judges is between 65 and 70 years old], so AutoPen Biden’s puppeteers could appoint a radical Leftist in his place.
Reagan, like Trump, was maladvised by his own coterie of uniparty swamp creatures.
The judge cites his own opinion as fact .
I don’t think aliens of any stripe should be protected by the Bill of Rights. If they don’t behave as we want, they should be shown the door.
I don’t know what the law allows, but that’s my opinion.
These foreign “students” weren’t just peacefully protesting. They were blocking school door entrances and shutting down institutions. They are foreign agitators, troublemakers and subversives.
No other country would tolerate this behavior from “guest” students who are supposed to be going to classes, and not creating havoc for the host community.
This “judge” is an idiot. Worse, he himself is an enabler of criminals. He should be rotting in prison along with the foreign terrorist. /spit
His clerk, probably a recent law school graduate, wrote it. The most the judge did was indicate generally how he wanted to rule and then proof it.
These criminals' actions are all covered under RICO.
Are they in the country illegally?
Only Politico would play up this demented judges rant as a reasonable decision. It will be overturned. Guy should not be anywhere near the bench.
Bullcrap. I am not a Netanyahu fan at all, and damn sure oppose Hamas. But I 100% support kicking these riotous turds out of America. To my knowledge, not a single pro-palestinian academic has been deported UNLESS they are rioters.
I don’t care if it’s on behalf of the Israelis, the Pope in Rome, Mother Teresa, or starving children on Fiji with no shoes. IF you are a foreigner and we benevolently gift you legal presence in America, you act right, don’t jaywalk, open doors for women, and wear a smile on your face. Talk about your cause all you want... but riot, march, organize politically, you get shown the door.
America is a party, and they are a guest. That comes with a code of conduct. The homeowner can do things forbidden to you.
Exactly...................
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