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Old 10-01-2025, 06:16 PM
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from those wild eyed far lefties over at Bloomberg...

"Judge Issues Rebuke of ‘Bullying’ Trump in Free Speech Case"
Story by Patricia Hurtado, Bob Van Voris and Miles J. Herszenhorn • 23h • 4 min read

"(Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign students and academics violated the First Amendment by targeting them for expressing their political views, a federal judge ruled in an unusual opinion that broadly and sharply criticized President Donald Trump.

US District Judge William G. Young in Boston said that non-citizens have the same First Amendment rights as Americans. Young, who presided over a trial in July, said the case “squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us” Young said.

“The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do,’” Young said.

The suit, filed in March by a pair of education groups, argued the administration engaged in “ideological deportation” by canceling the visas of legal residents who engaged in campus activism. It was the first trial challenging the government’s authority to deport foreign students who protested the war in Gaza.

The 161-page ruling is a departure from how opinions are usually written. The judge blasted Trump’s immigration policies in a highly critical opinion, which begins with “Trump has pardons and tanks...What do you have?” scrawled across the top of the court document, above the case title, taken from an anonymous postcard sent to the judge in June."

continued https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ee1ba0f&ei=190

Interesting opinion from a Reagan appointee, no?
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