Overview
- Judge William Young said he will issue an order that presumes immigration status changes for members of the AAUP and MESA are retaliatory and requires the government to prove appropriate grounds.
- He accused Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem of conspiring to chill campus speech in violation of the First Amendment.
- The judge said DHS reassigned personnel from counterterrorism and human-trafficking work to gather derogatory information on student activists.
- Thursday’s hearing follows his September finding that the State Department and DHS unlawfully chilled the speech of non-citizen academics on U.S. campuses.
- Separately, a divided federal appeals panel overturned a lower-court ruling that had deemed Mahmoud Khalil’s detention and removal likely unconstitutional.