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DoomsdaysCW

American Association of University Professors [#AAUP] v. #Rubio

A case challenging the #Trump administration’s policy of ideological deportation.

"On March 25, 2025, the Knight Institute filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian activism. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), AAUP’s #Harvard, #NYU, and #Rutgers campus chapters, and the #MiddleEastStudies Association, argues that the policy chills noncitizens from speaking and, by extension, robs these organizations and their U.S. citizen members of noncitizens’ perspectives on a matter of significant public debate.

"The lawsuit responds to a climate of repression and fear on university campuses. Federal agencies are attempting to deport multiple individuals for their #ProPalestinian advocacy, including #MahmoudKhalil, a leader of protests at Columbia University. These actions have sent chills through the community of noncitizen students and faculty on campuses around the country, causing some to pull out of academic conferences, stay home from #protests, and withdraw from other forms of public advocacy and engagement.

"The lawsuit alleges that the administration’s policy of ideological deportation violates the First Amendment right of the plaintiffs to hear from and associate with noncitizen students and faculty, that it is unconstitutionally vague, and that it violates the Administrative Procedure Act. The suit seeks a court order declaring that the policy is unlawful and enjoining the federal government from enforcing it."

Status: Complaint filed on March 25, 2025.

Case Information: American Association of University Professors v. Rubio, No. 1:25-cv-10685 (D.Mass).

knightcolumbia.org/cases/aaup-
#YunseoChung #RightToProtest #SilencingDissent #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #law
#immigration #FreeSpeech #MarcoRubio #Trump #FreedomOfAssembly #Authoritarianism #Palestine #CriminalizingDissent #HigherEducation

American Association of University Professors v. Rubio
Knight First Amendment InstituteAmerican Association of University Professors v. Rubio
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DoomsdaysCW

Looks like the American Association of University Professors agrees with me!

#AAUP, Allies Sue over #Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport #Students and #Faculty for #LawfulSpeech

"The national AAUP; chapters at #Harvard, #Rutgers, and #NYU; and the #MiddleEastStudies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members who participate in #ProPalestinian #protests and other protected #FirstAmendment activities.

"We believe that the administration’s ideological-deportation policy violates the First Amendment by targeting constitutionally protected speech that Americans have a right to hear and engage with. The policy has created a climate of fear and repression on campuses around the country. We are represented in the case by the #KnightFirstAmendmentInstitute at #ColumbiaUniversity, #AhilanArulanantham, and Zimmer, Citron & Clarke LLP.

"Following executive orders issued by President Trump in January, the federal agencies that enforce immigration laws have arrested and detained several people associated with U.S. colleges and universities, including a legal permanent resident, on the basis of constitutionally protected speech and association.

"Today’s filing argues that the ideological-deportation policy has created a climate of #repression and intense fear on university #campuses, 'terrorizing students and faculty for their exercise of First Amendment rights in the past, intimidating them from exercising those rights now, and silencing political viewpoints that the government disfavors.'

"'The Trump administration is going after international #scholars and students who speak their minds about #Palestine, but make no mistake: they won't stop there. They'll come next for those who teach the history of #slavery or who provide #GenderAffirming health care or who research #ClimateChange or who counsel students about their reproductive choices. We all have to draw a line together—as the old labor movement slogan says: an injury to one is an injury to all,' says AAUP President Todd Wolfson.

"'The First Amendment means the government can’t arrest, detain, or deport people for lawful political expression—it’s as simple as that. This practice is one we’d ordinarily associate with the most repressive political regimes, and it should have no place in our democracy,' says #JameelJaffer, executive director at the Knight First Amendment Institute."

Source:
aaup.org/news/aaup-allies-sue-
#RightToProtest #SilencingDissent #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #law
#immigration #FreeSpeech #MarcoRubio #Trump #FreedomOfAssembly #Authoritarianism #Palestine #CriminalizingDissent #HigherEducation

AAUP · AAUP, Allies Sue over Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful SpeechThe national AAUP; chapters at Harvard, Rutgers, and NYU; and the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members who participate in pro-Palestinian protests and other protected First Amendment activities.
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DoomsdaysCW

#ColumbiaUniversity student sues #Trump administration over threatened deportation

#YunseoChung, 21, has lived in the U.S. since she was 7 years old

Mar 24, 2025

"A Korean American Columbia University student, who is a legal permanent U.S. resident and has participated in pro-Palestinian protests, sued the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday to prevent her deportation, a court filing showed.

"Yunseo Chung, 21, has lived in the U.S. since she was seven, but her legal team was informed two weeks ago that her lawful permanent resident status was being revoked, according to the court filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

"The Trump administration says her U.S. presence hinders its foreign policy agenda, according to the lawsuit. Chung has not yet been arrested. Immigration agents have made multiple visits to her residences looking for her."

Read more:
cbc.ca/news/world/columbia-stu
#RightToProtest #SilencingDissent #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #law
#immigration #FreeSpeech #MarcoRubio #Trump #FreedomOfAssembly #Authoritarianism #GreenCard #FreePalestine

CBCColumbia University student sues Trump administration over threatened deportation | CBC NewsA Korean American Columbia University student, who is a legal permanent U.S. resident and has participated in pro-Palestinian protests, sued the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday to prevent her deportation, a court filing showed.
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Nonilex

The #Trump admin is trying to deport *another* student, 21-yr-old #YunseoChung, a legal permanent resident, under the statute authorizing Secy of State #MarcoRubio to remove people deemed threat. She's lived here since childhood.

Chung wasn’t a leader or heavily involved in the protest movement, she only attended a few.

The #US is seeking to deport a person w/a #GreenCard since she was a child because she went to a #protest.

Yunseo Chung moved to the United States with her family from South Korea when she was 7 years old and was valedictorian of her high school.
Pursuant to the Policy, and consistent with remarks made by Secretary Rubio and by law enforcement agents who recently arrested another student at Columbia University,? Secretary Rubio purportedly made such a determination as to Ms. Chung ("the Rubio Determination"'). This determination was based on Ms. Chung's actual and perceived lawful activity protected by the First Amendment: participation in protests and statements regarding Palestine, Israel, and discipline of student protestors on campus. Pursuant to the Rubio Determination, ICE, a component of DHS, seeks to arrest Ms. Chung, detain her, and place her in removal proceedings, presumably to South Korea. Ms. Chung is now at active risk of being put in immigration detention and deported from the only country she has ever known.
#law#immigration#FreeSpeech
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Nonilex

Another case like #MahmoudKhalil & #BadarSuri:

On March 15, #MomodouTaal, a #CornellUniversity PhD student w/ #UK & #Gambia citizenship, here on a #StudentVisa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn #Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism”.

This morning at 12:52AM, the #DOJ emailed asking him to come to #ICE to be detained & put into removal proceedings.

courtlistener.com/docket/69743

Excerpt: Under the subject line “Momodou Taal et al v. Trump, 25-cv-335 (NDNY),” the government informed the undersigned for the first time that the government intended to serve Mr. Taal with a Notice to Appear (NTA), and that they intended to take Mr. Taal into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Given that this information confirms the factual basis for Plaintiffs’ request for an emergency temporary restraining order, ECF No. 23, and the increased urgency with which the Court’s intervention is needed, we respectfully request the Court construe this letter as any procedurally appropriate vehicle to obtain the same.
#immigration#law#Constitution
Continued thread
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Nonilex

In response to #BadarSuri's Petition for Writ of #HabeasCorpus, Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles says the detained #Georgetown researcher cannot be deported *for now*
The arrest of #BadarSuri, #Trump’s #DHS claimed Suri was spreading“Hamas propaganda,”arrested & sent him to a Louisiana detention center. Suri is a LEGAL resident of Virginia married to a full US citizen of Palestinian heritage.

This matter comes before the Court on Petitioner Badar Khan Suri's Petition for Writ of HabeasCorpus, which was filed on March 18, 2025. According to the Petition, on March 17, 2025, the DHS arrested & charged Petitioner w/removability, pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(4)(C). At the time of filing, Petitioner alleged that he was presently being detained at the Farmville Detention Center in Farmville, Virginia. Pursuant to the Court's authority to preserve its jurisdiction under the All Writs Act, pending a ruling on the Petition, it is hereby ORDERED that Petitioner shall not be removed from the United States unless & until the Court issues a contrary order.…
#immigration#law#Constitution
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Nonilex

A Statement from #ConstitutionalLaw Scholars on the government's funding cutoff at #ColumbiaUniversity

— Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David Cole, & 15 other scholars

The #USgovernment may not threaten #funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing #First #Amendment protected #speech.

#law #Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent
nybooks.com/online/2025/03/20/

The New York Review of BooksA Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia | Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David ColeWe write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the
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Catherine Morris

The North Dakota court battle testing free speech in Donald Trump’s America: #Greenpeace is being sued by oil group over demonstrations a decade ago. Campaigners say the future of legal protest is at stake. | Amanda Chu in Mandan, North Dakota and Jamie Smyth in Houston, Financial Times ft.com/tour.
ft.com/content/e249e9ff-c20b-4 #DAPL #FreedomOfAssembly #FreedomOfExpression #BizHumanRights #SLAPP #law #lawfedi

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Nonilex

#DOJ probes Columbia war protests for terrorism violations

The U.S. #Justice Department is examining whether student protests at #ColumbiaUniversity over the #Gaza war violated federal terrorism laws, #Trump’s Deputy Attorney General & former #criminal defense attorney #ToddBlanche said on Friday.

#law #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #USpol #NaziState
reuters.com/world/us/us-justic

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MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:

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#DiEM25 (and #DemocracyNow) #MERA25

#MelanieSchweizer & #YannisVaroufakis Expose the Truth Behind Europe's War Agenda

As #Europe gathered for the #MunichSecuritySummit , Yanis V and #MERA25 candidate Melanie Schweitzer issue a stark warning:
The Europe peace project is being hijacked by warmongers, #corporate interests and rising #authoritarian forces.

Among many key point, Melanie said #Germany's situation is dire: a blatant Attack on #freedomofassembly, #freedomofspeech, #crisisofdemocracy, etc. She also said the #GreenPartyGermany 🤢 , #DieLinke , moderates like the #SPD, etc have taken over the rhetoric and policies of the #farright (EX: #FrancescaAlbanese is banned from speaking in Germany, etc) It sounds like a nightmare.

YouTubeYanis Varoufakis & Melanie Schweizer Expose the Truth Behind Europe’s War AgendaBy DiEM25
#EUisNotaWarUnion#FIGHTBACK#extrêmedroite
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