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Reagan-Appointed Judge Calls Out Trump's 'Full-Throated Assault on the First Amendment'
Everyone has First Amendment rights
Reagan-Appointed Judge Calls Out Trump’s ‘Full-Throated Assault on the First Amendment’
— mrbunnylamakins🇺🇦🥓🌮 🕠(@mrbunnyulamakins.bsky.social) 2025-10-01T15:06:58.988Z
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https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-william-young-trump-rebuke-free-speech-violation-pro-palestine-students/
A judge Tuesday issued an extraordinary 161-page rebuke of President Donald Trump while finding that the U.S. government impermissibly violated the First Amendment by targeting pro-Palestinian student activists for deportation.
U.S. District Judge Bill Young’s ruling was the long-anticipated result of a lawsuit brought by university professors who alleged that Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and other Trump officials intentionally violated First Amendment speech protections to chill pro-Palestine campus speech.......
The constitutional question before Young was whether non-citizens lawfully present in the country have the same free speech rights as U.S. citizens.
Young ruled “unequivocally” they do.
“‘No law’ means ‘no law,’” Young said, referring to the text of the First Amendment, which in part states that Congress shall make no law “abridging the freedom of speech” or “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Young ruled that the First Amendment could not draw on the Trump administration’s “invidious distinction” between citizens and non-citizens, which the judge said “is not to be found in our history or jurisprudence.”
U.S. District Judge Bill Young’s ruling was the long-anticipated result of a lawsuit brought by university professors who alleged that Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and other Trump officials intentionally violated First Amendment speech protections to chill pro-Palestine campus speech.......
The constitutional question before Young was whether non-citizens lawfully present in the country have the same free speech rights as U.S. citizens.
Young ruled “unequivocally” they do.
“‘No law’ means ‘no law,’” Young said, referring to the text of the First Amendment, which in part states that Congress shall make no law “abridging the freedom of speech” or “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Young ruled that the First Amendment could not draw on the Trump administration’s “invidious distinction” between citizens and non-citizens, which the judge said “is not to be found in our history or jurisprudence.”