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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Judge blasts ‘authoritarian’ Trump administration’s ‘unconstitutional conspiracy’ to deny free speech

A federal judge issued a remarkable rebuke directed at President Donald Trump and top administration officials, he says, who have waged an “unconstitutional conspiracy” against international students for their Palestinian advocacy against Israel’s war in Gaza.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “have failed in their duties to protect the Constitution” by depriving the First Amendment rights of students and faculty in their threats to strip them of visas and arrest and deport them, according to Massachusetts District Judge William Young.

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