Citing the importance of the First Amendment, a federal judge in California says the U.S. government is unconstitutionally silencing critics of Israel’s war in Gaza and others as part of the Trump administration ‘s quest to deport noncitizens who it says disrupted college campuses while expressing their views.

Judge Noël Wise, in a ruling Friday, delivered a victory for The Stanford Daily, the student newspaper at Stanford University, which has said some international students were afraid to speak out because of the deportation threat.

“Freedom of speech is illusory if we are only ‘free’ to express complementary views about the government and its leaders,” the judge wrote.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    9 hours ago

    When we take this country back, we need to go through these judges, and find the Eileen Cannons, and interrogate them heavily. If they’ve taken their seats, or ruled at all, with MAGA in mind, they should lose their law licenses, and go to prison. Cannon certainly was coordinating with Trump and MAGA, and was conspiring to let him off the hook for the most egregious treason committed by any president, and probably any other traitor in American history. She is an accomplice to treason and conspiracy, and should spend the rest of her life in prison. She is lucky it never got to trial, because if she had let him go, she’d be facing the death penalty.

    Other judges, like the one in Texas who gave DECADES-long sentences to people who were exercising their 1st Amendment rights, who have conspired with MAGA against the Constitution, should suffer as well. Future judges must learn that their loyalty is to the Constitution, not their political party.

    • BillCheddar@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      3 hours ago

      Quick note: If the government refuses, private citizens can always rise up, form your own League of Justice, and rain down hell on all these piece of shit traitors.

      You don’t need the permission of corrupted organizations.

    • TheMadCodger@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      6 hours ago

      “Now is not the time for partisan rhetoric, but instead we should put this all behind us” or whatever it is they say after ever major turnover instead of actually doing something to hold them accountable.