What happened

A federal judge in Boston Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration’s push to arrest and deport international students for voicing their support for Palestinians was an illegal, “truly scandalous and unconstitutional suppression of free speech.”

The case was brought by a group of university faculty in response to the administration’s targeting of noncitizen students, including Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk, who had publicly opposed Israel’s war in Gaza.

Who said what

U.S. District Judge William Young, appointed four decades ago by Ronald Reagan, said the case was “perhaps the most important ever to fall” before his court. His “blistering ruling” followed a July trial in which top Trump administration officials “described orchestrating the arrests of these activi

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