William Young, a senior judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment by trying to deport anti-Israel protesters solely based on their views.
In his ruling , Young stated that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and their employees “acted in concert to misuse the sweeping powers of their respective offices” to deport noncitizen, anti-Israel protesters “primarily on account of their First Amendment-protected political speech.”
The American Association of University Professors and its chapters at Harvard University, Rutgers University and New York University and the Middle East Studies Association filed the suit against Rubio, Noem, U.S. President Don