A federal judge described Donald Trump as an “authoritarian” and accused his administration of “an unconstitutional conspiracy to pick off certain people” in its aggressive pursuit of non-US citizen, pro-Palestinian activists on American college campuses.
US district judge William Young, who was appointed by the Republican president Ronald Reagan, said on Thursday that he would issue an order aimed at protecting academics who challenged the arrest and deportation of pro-Palestinian scholars such as Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk.
