"In Boston's federal district court on Thursday, the Reagan-appointed, 84-year-old U.S. District Judge William Young slammed the Trump administration for bludgeoning the First Amendment. Along with calling the president an "authoritarian" and accusing his administration of engaging in an "unconstitutional conspiracy to pick off certain people," he declared the administration has excluded "from participation everyone who doesn't agree with them." Forgive the creeping smirk on my face."
""Talking straight here," he said, "the big problem in this case is that the Cabinet secretaries and ostensibly, the president of the United States, are not honoring the First Amendment." ( Wow! News! To! Me!) Young delivered the biting remarks during a hearing stemming from a case last summer, in which five academic organizations sued on behalf of five international students who protested in support of Palestine (including Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Öztürk). All five students were arrested by ICE and threatened with deportation."
"In his landmark ruling in September, Young declared it was, indeed, unconstitutional for senior administration officials to deliberately try to arrest and deport international students for their views. (Unfortunately, also on Thursday, a Pennsylvania appellate court overturned a separate ruling on Khalil's case, thus reopening the door for his arrest.) At the time, Young called the case "perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court.""
An 84-year-old Reagan-appointed U.S. District Judge William Young sharply criticized the Trump administration for undermining the First Amendment and accused senior officials of an unconstitutional conspiracy to exclude dissenting voices. Young found senior administration officials deliberately sought to arrest and deport international students who protested in support of Palestine. Five academic organizations sued on behalf of five international students, all arrested by ICE and threatened with deportation. Young called the case one of the most important to the district and rebuked Cabinet secretaries for failing to uphold their oath. A Pennsylvania appellate court later overturned a separate ruling, reopening the possibility of arrest for one student.
Read at Jezebel
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]