A federal judge unloaded on Donald Trump and top administration officials for threatening First Amendment rights of international students for demonstrating against Israel’s war in Gaza.
A damning 161-page opinion Tuesday found that State Secretary Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem illegally chilled protected speech of pro-Palestinian students and faculty by threatening to revoke their visas and then arresting, detaining and deporting them — what the judge called a “full-throated assault on the First Amendment across the board under the cover of an unconstitutionally broad definition” of antisemitism.
