Judge Issues Rebuke of ‘Bullying’ Trump in Free Speech Case

The Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign students and academics violated the First Amendment by targeting them for expressing their political views, a federal judge ruled in an unusual opinion that broadly and sharply criticized President Donald Trump.

US District Judge William G. Young in Boston said that non-citizens have the same First Amendment rights as Americans. Young, who presided over a trial in July, said the case “squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us” Young said.