"Photo by: Andrea Renault/STAR MAX/IPx 2024 4/20/24 A federal judge issued a scathing rebuke to President Donald Trump's crackdown on pro-Palestinian student protesters, finding that his administration had illegally targeted immigrant students for deportation in order to strike fear into protesters exercising their First Amendment rights, expressly ruling that non-citizens lawfully present in the U.S. have the same free speech rights as citizens."
"In an unusual move, Young bookended his opinion with a message to someone who sent his court an anonymous postcard dated June 19 with a threat that read, TRUMP HAS PARDONS AND TANKSWHAT DO YOU HAVE? BREAKING A federal judge finds that the Trump admin's policy targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment. His blistering, 161-page ruling starts with a threat he received in chambers and his response."
Judge William G. Young of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued a 161-page opinion finding the Trump administration illegally targeted immigrant students for deportation to strike fear into pro-Palestinian student protesters. The opinion expressly ruled that non-citizens lawfully present in the United States hold the same First Amendment free speech rights as citizens. The ruling described the administration's policy as an unlawful effort to intimidate protesters. The judge bookended the opinion with direct messages responding to an anonymous threatening postcard received in chambers.
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