A First Amendment legal challenge brought by the Stanford Daily student newspaper against the Trump administration has been pushed to January 2026 to give a federal judge more time to assess whether the plaintiffs are qualified to be part of the lawsuit.

First filed in August, the suit alleges the administration has used immigration policies to suppress protected speech by student activists and journalists. It names Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as defendants.

The plaintiffs – the newspaper and two individuals using aliases – are challenging two provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act that they say let the government punish noncitizens for exercising protected speech.

The first, the Deportation Provision, allows the Se

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