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A federal judge Thursday decried what he said were
“breathtaking” constitutional violations
by senior Trump administration officialsand called the president
an “authoritarian” who expects everyone in the executive branch to
“toe the line absolutely.”
In remarks laced with outrage and disbelief,
U.S. District Judge #William #Young said Donald Trump and top officials have a
“fearful approach”
to freedom of speech that would seek to
“exclude from participation everyone who doesn’t agree with them.”
Young, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan,
leveled the searing critique during a hearing in Boston to determine the appropriate remedies for the administration’s ⚠️detentions of
pro-Palestinian students last year.The judge had ruled in September that senior administration officials engaged in an 👉 illegal effort to arrest and deport noncitizen students based on their activism. On Thursday, he again denounced the administration’s conduct in unusually stark terms.
“Talking straight here,” he said.
“The big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries
and ostensibly,
the president of the United States,
are not honoring the First Amendment.” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem
and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
engaged in an
“unconstitutional conspiracy”
to deprive people of their rights,
Young said.“The secretary of state,” he noted,
his voice full of incredulity,
“the senior cabinet officer in our history involved in this.”
Spokespersons for the White House,
Noem and Rubio did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, last year called Young a “craven” judge who was “smearing and demonizing federal law enforcement.”
The government actions at the core of the case date to early March,
when the Trump administration launched a campaign to detain and deport noncitizen students at U.S. universities
who had been active in opposing Israel’s war in Gaza.Though not accused of any crime,
those arrested spent weeks confined in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities,
at times hundreds of miles from where they lived,
before being released on bail.
The plaintiffs in the case are the American Association of University Professors
and the Middle East Studies Association.The groups of scholars accused the administration of having an unconstitutional policy of deporting people based on their political views,
a policy intended to chill the free-speech rights of their members. The trial last summer focused on the targeting of five noncitizen students and scholars: #Mahmoud #Khalil, #Yunseo #Chung and #Mohsen #Mahdawi, who were students at Columbia University;#Rumeysa #Ozturk,
a graduate student at Tufts University;and #Badar #Khan #Suri, a postdoctoral scholar at Georgetown University.
All were arrested except Chung,
who obtained a restraining order before ICE could find her.The other four were released on the orders of federal judges,
but the Trump administration is still trying to deport them.⭐️On Thursday, an appellate court in Philadelphia overturned a
Ruling lower-court ruling in Khalil’s case on jurisdictional grounds,
⛔️raising the possibility that he could be rearrested.
The president and other officials hailed last year’s detentions as part of a fight against "antisemitism", alleging without presenting evidence that the targeted students promoted violence or were pro-Hamas. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/15/protesters-trump-administration-free-speech-violations/ -
A federal judge Thursday decried what he said were
“breathtaking” constitutional violations
by senior Trump administration officialsand called the president
an “authoritarian” who expects everyone in the executive branch to
“toe the line absolutely.”
In remarks laced with outrage and disbelief,
U.S. District Judge #William #Young said Donald Trump and top officials have a
“fearful approach”
to freedom of speech that would seek to
“exclude from participation everyone who doesn’t agree with them.”
Young, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan,
leveled the searing critique during a hearing in Boston to determine the appropriate remedies for the administration’s ⚠️detentions of
pro-Palestinian students last year.The judge had ruled in September that senior administration officials engaged in an 👉 illegal effort to arrest and deport noncitizen students based on their activism. On Thursday, he again denounced the administration’s conduct in unusually stark terms.
“Talking straight here,” he said.
“The big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries
and ostensibly,
the president of the United States,
are not honoring the First Amendment.” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem
and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
engaged in an
“unconstitutional conspiracy”
to deprive people of their rights,
Young said.“The secretary of state,” he noted,
his voice full of incredulity,
“the senior cabinet officer in our history involved in this.”
Spokespersons for the White House,
Noem and Rubio did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, last year called Young a “craven” judge who was “smearing and demonizing federal law enforcement.”
The government actions at the core of the case date to early March,
when the Trump administration launched a campaign to detain and deport noncitizen students at U.S. universities
who had been active in opposing Israel’s war in Gaza.Though not accused of any crime,
those arrested spent weeks confined in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities,
at times hundreds of miles from where they lived,
before being released on bail.
The plaintiffs in the case are the American Association of University Professors
and the Middle East Studies Association.The groups of scholars accused the administration of having an unconstitutional policy of deporting people based on their political views,
a policy intended to chill the free-speech rights of their members. The trial last summer focused on the targeting of five noncitizen students and scholars: #Mahmoud #Khalil, #Yunseo #Chung and #Mohsen #Mahdawi, who were students at Columbia University;#Rumeysa #Ozturk,
a graduate student at Tufts University;and #Badar #Khan #Suri, a postdoctoral scholar at Georgetown University.
All were arrested except Chung,
who obtained a restraining order before ICE could find her.The other four were released on the orders of federal judges,
but the Trump administration is still trying to deport them.⭐️On Thursday, an appellate court in Philadelphia overturned a
Ruling lower-court ruling in Khalil’s case on jurisdictional grounds,
⛔️raising the possibility that he could be rearrested.
The president and other officials hailed last year’s detentions as part of a fight against "antisemitism", alleging without presenting evidence that the targeted students promoted violence or were pro-Hamas. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/15/protesters-trump-administration-free-speech-violations/ -
A federal judge Thursday decried what he said were
“breathtaking” constitutional violations
by senior Trump administration officialsand called the president
an “authoritarian” who expects everyone in the executive branch to
“toe the line absolutely.”
In remarks laced with outrage and disbelief,
U.S. District Judge #William #Young said Donald Trump and top officials have a
“fearful approach”
to freedom of speech that would seek to
“exclude from participation everyone who doesn’t agree with them.”
Young, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan,
leveled the searing critique during a hearing in Boston to determine the appropriate remedies for the administration’s ⚠️detentions of
pro-Palestinian students last year.The judge had ruled in September that senior administration officials engaged in an 👉 illegal effort to arrest and deport noncitizen students based on their activism. On Thursday, he again denounced the administration’s conduct in unusually stark terms.
“Talking straight here,” he said.
“The big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries
and ostensibly,
the president of the United States,
are not honoring the First Amendment.” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem
and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
engaged in an
“unconstitutional conspiracy”
to deprive people of their rights,
Young said.“The secretary of state,” he noted,
his voice full of incredulity,
“the senior cabinet officer in our history involved in this.”
Spokespersons for the White House,
Noem and Rubio did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, last year called Young a “craven” judge who was “smearing and demonizing federal law enforcement.”
The government actions at the core of the case date to early March,
when the Trump administration launched a campaign to detain and deport noncitizen students at U.S. universities
who had been active in opposing Israel’s war in Gaza.Though not accused of any crime,
those arrested spent weeks confined in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities,
at times hundreds of miles from where they lived,
before being released on bail.
The plaintiffs in the case are the American Association of University Professors
and the Middle East Studies Association.The groups of scholars accused the administration of having an unconstitutional policy of deporting people based on their political views,
a policy intended to chill the free-speech rights of their members. The trial last summer focused on the targeting of five noncitizen students and scholars: #Mahmoud #Khalil, #Yunseo #Chung and #Mohsen #Mahdawi, who were students at Columbia University;#Rumeysa #Ozturk,
a graduate student at Tufts University;and #Badar #Khan #Suri, a postdoctoral scholar at Georgetown University.
All were arrested except Chung,
who obtained a restraining order before ICE could find her.The other four were released on the orders of federal judges,
but the Trump administration is still trying to deport them.⭐️On Thursday, an appellate court in Philadelphia overturned a
Ruling lower-court ruling in Khalil’s case on jurisdictional grounds,
⛔️raising the possibility that he could be rearrested.
The president and other officials hailed last year’s detentions as part of a fight against "antisemitism", alleging without presenting evidence that the targeted students promoted violence or were pro-Hamas. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/15/protesters-trump-administration-free-speech-violations/ -
A federal judge Thursday decried what he said were
“breathtaking” constitutional violations
by senior Trump administration officialsand called the president
an “authoritarian” who expects everyone in the executive branch to
“toe the line absolutely.”
In remarks laced with outrage and disbelief,
U.S. District Judge #William #Young said Donald Trump and top officials have a
“fearful approach”
to freedom of speech that would seek to
“exclude from participation everyone who doesn’t agree with them.”
Young, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan,
leveled the searing critique during a hearing in Boston to determine the appropriate remedies for the administration’s ⚠️detentions of
pro-Palestinian students last year.The judge had ruled in September that senior administration officials engaged in an 👉 illegal effort to arrest and deport noncitizen students based on their activism. On Thursday, he again denounced the administration’s conduct in unusually stark terms.
“Talking straight here,” he said.
“The big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries
and ostensibly,
the president of the United States,
are not honoring the First Amendment.” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem
and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
engaged in an
“unconstitutional conspiracy”
to deprive people of their rights,
Young said.“The secretary of state,” he noted,
his voice full of incredulity,
“the senior cabinet officer in our history involved in this.”
Spokespersons for the White House,
Noem and Rubio did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, last year called Young a “craven” judge who was “smearing and demonizing federal law enforcement.”
The government actions at the core of the case date to early March,
when the Trump administration launched a campaign to detain and deport noncitizen students at U.S. universities
who had been active in opposing Israel’s war in Gaza.Though not accused of any crime,
those arrested spent weeks confined in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities,
at times hundreds of miles from where they lived,
before being released on bail.
The plaintiffs in the case are the American Association of University Professors
and the Middle East Studies Association.The groups of scholars accused the administration of having an unconstitutional policy of deporting people based on their political views,
a policy intended to chill the free-speech rights of their members. The trial last summer focused on the targeting of five noncitizen students and scholars: #Mahmoud #Khalil, #Yunseo #Chung and #Mohsen #Mahdawi, who were students at Columbia University;#Rumeysa #Ozturk,
a graduate student at Tufts University;and #Badar #Khan #Suri, a postdoctoral scholar at Georgetown University.
All were arrested except Chung,
who obtained a restraining order before ICE could find her.The other four were released on the orders of federal judges,
but the Trump administration is still trying to deport them.⭐️On Thursday, an appellate court in Philadelphia overturned a
Ruling lower-court ruling in Khalil’s case on jurisdictional grounds,
⛔️raising the possibility that he could be rearrested.
The president and other officials hailed last year’s detentions as part of a fight against "antisemitism", alleging without presenting evidence that the targeted students promoted violence or were pro-Hamas. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/15/protesters-trump-administration-free-speech-violations/ -
A federal judge Thursday decried what he said were
“breathtaking” constitutional violations
by senior Trump administration officialsand called the president
an “authoritarian” who expects everyone in the executive branch to
“toe the line absolutely.”
In remarks laced with outrage and disbelief,
U.S. District Judge #William #Young said Donald Trump and top officials have a
“fearful approach”
to freedom of speech that would seek to
“exclude from participation everyone who doesn’t agree with them.”
Young, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan,
leveled the searing critique during a hearing in Boston to determine the appropriate remedies for the administration’s ⚠️detentions of
pro-Palestinian students last year.The judge had ruled in September that senior administration officials engaged in an 👉 illegal effort to arrest and deport noncitizen students based on their activism. On Thursday, he again denounced the administration’s conduct in unusually stark terms.
“Talking straight here,” he said.
“The big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries
and ostensibly,
the president of the United States,
are not honoring the First Amendment.” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem
and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
engaged in an
“unconstitutional conspiracy”
to deprive people of their rights,
Young said.“The secretary of state,” he noted,
his voice full of incredulity,
“the senior cabinet officer in our history involved in this.”
Spokespersons for the White House,
Noem and Rubio did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, last year called Young a “craven” judge who was “smearing and demonizing federal law enforcement.”
The government actions at the core of the case date to early March,
when the Trump administration launched a campaign to detain and deport noncitizen students at U.S. universities
who had been active in opposing Israel’s war in Gaza.Though not accused of any crime,
those arrested spent weeks confined in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities,
at times hundreds of miles from where they lived,
before being released on bail.
The plaintiffs in the case are the American Association of University Professors
and the Middle East Studies Association.The groups of scholars accused the administration of having an unconstitutional policy of deporting people based on their political views,
a policy intended to chill the free-speech rights of their members. The trial last summer focused on the targeting of five noncitizen students and scholars: #Mahmoud #Khalil, #Yunseo #Chung and #Mohsen #Mahdawi, who were students at Columbia University;#Rumeysa #Ozturk,
a graduate student at Tufts University;and #Badar #Khan #Suri, a postdoctoral scholar at Georgetown University.
All were arrested except Chung,
who obtained a restraining order before ICE could find her.The other four were released on the orders of federal judges,
but the Trump administration is still trying to deport them.⭐️On Thursday, an appellate court in Philadelphia overturned a
Ruling lower-court ruling in Khalil’s case on jurisdictional grounds,
⛔️raising the possibility that he could be rearrested.
The president and other officials hailed last year’s detentions as part of a fight against "antisemitism", alleging without presenting evidence that the targeted students promoted violence or were pro-Hamas. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/15/protesters-trump-administration-free-speech-violations/ -
“The #Trump administration tried to do the same thing to Mr. #Khalil, Ms. #Ozturk, & Mr. #Mahdawi in order to find a court it believed would be friendlier to its unlawful #detention of people advocating for #Palestinian rights. We are pleased the court saw through the Trump administration’s attempts to manipulate the #law, & we won’t stop fighting until Dr. #KhanSuri is reunited with his family,” Heilman said.
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US Federal Judge orders #DHS to release Columbia University student Mohsen #Mahdawi from detention. Director Kristi Noem continues to cosplay as an ICE agent. https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-deals-humiliating-blow-to-ice-barbie-on-detained-columbia-student/
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"Vermont Judge releases Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi"
(audio only, transcript to come)
"Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi — detained by authorities at his naturalization interview — is free for now. He had been in prison for two weeks after his arrest earlier in April."
#USPol #Immigration #DueProcess #FreeSpeech #Mahdawi #Resist
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"Mohsen Mahdawi — the Columbia student arrested at his citizenship appointment — speaks"
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/04/29/detained-columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-speaks-from-prison/
"In the first media interview with any of the Trump administration’s student detainees – all at risk of deportation — Mahdawi spoke to Leila Fadel in the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans, Vt., where he’s awaiting a court hearing Wednesday …"
#USPol #Immigration #DueProcess #FreeSpeech #Mahdawi #Resist #Fascism
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#Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by #ICE
A green card holder, #ColumbiaUniversity protest leader #MohsenMahdawi faced attacks from pro-#Israel activists.
By Akela Lacy, April 14, 2025
"Mohsen K. Mahdawi arrived at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in #ColchesterVT, on Monday. A Palestinian student at Columbia University, he hoped that, after 10 years in the U.S., he would pass the test to become a naturalized citizen.
Instead, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him and began the process to deport him to the occupied West Bank. #Mahdawi, a leader of the campus protest movement against Israel’s war on Gaza, became yet another green card holder arrested and facing removal."'#MohsenMahdawi was unlawfully detained today for no reason other than his Palestinian identity,' Mahdawi’s attorney Luna Droubi said in a statement to The Intercept. 'He came to this country hoping to be free to speak out about the atrocities he has witnessed, only to be punished for such speech.'
"Mahdawi’s lawyers filed a habeas corpus petition on Monday morning challenging the legality of his detention, alleging the government was violating his statutory and #DueProcess rights by punishing him for speech related to Palestine and Israel. The filing said it appears that Mahdawi was facing deportation under the obscure provision used in other recent cases that gives Secretary of State #MarcoRubio the right to unilaterally declare immigrants as threats to American foreign policy."Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/14/ice-columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-citizenship-interview/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/Z0lNh#FreeMahdawi #SilencingDissent #Authoritarianism #ICE #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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'Immoral, Inhumane, and Illegal': #ICE Arrests Palestinian #Columbia Protest Leader
"He came to this country hoping to be free to speak out about the atrocities he has witnessed, only to be punished for such speech," said Mohsen Mahdawi's lawyer.
from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
Apr 14, 2025"A month after the international far-right pro-Israel group #Betar named #ColumbiaUniversity student #MohsenMahdawi as the next target in its campaign to push for the deportation of #Palestinian rights defenders, #Mahdawi was arrested Monday at an immigration office in Colchester, Vermont, where he had arrived to complete a test to be a naturalized U.S. citizen. "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mohsen-mahdawi
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#FreeMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press @palestine