{"id":21598,"date":"2025-05-09T14:48:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T18:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=21598"},"modified":"2025-05-12T21:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T01:17:01","slug":"federal-judge-sets-free-op-ed-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/09\/federal-judge-sets-free-op-ed-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Sets Free Op-Ed Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[reposted on the Mises Institute blog and the Libertarian Institute blog and elsewhere]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FEDERAL JUDGE SETS FREE OP-ED WRITER<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u\" dir=\"auto\">Federal judge orders Trump administration to release Tufts University grad student Rumeysa Ozturk from ICE lockup. Ozturk, who had a valid <a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/JPB-RADIO-ROTHBARD-OZTURK-ILLUSTRATION-shackles-1875451_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21541\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/JPB-RADIO-ROTHBARD-OZTURK-ILLUSTRATION-shackles-1875451_1280-800x597.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/JPB-RADIO-ROTHBARD-OZTURK-ILLUSTRATION-shackles-1875451_1280-800x597.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/JPB-RADIO-ROTHBARD-OZTURK-ILLUSTRATION-shackles-1875451_1280-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/JPB-RADIO-ROTHBARD-OZTURK-ILLUSTRATION-shackles-1875451_1280-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/JPB-RADIO-ROTHBARD-OZTURK-ILLUSTRATION-shackles-1875451_1280-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/JPB-RADIO-ROTHBARD-OZTURK-ILLUSTRATION-shackles-1875451_1280.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>student visa from Turkey, was only guilty of writing an op-ed.\u00a0 Secretary of State Marco Rubio vilified her and Department of Homeland Security officials claimed Ozturk had other sweeping offenses, including that she \u201cengaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans.\u201d But the feds could provide no evidence after locking her up for six weeks.\u00a0 Federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/05\/09\/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-ice-release-00338953\">judge William Sessions<\/a> III declared today, <\/span>\u201cThat literally is the case. There has been no evidence that has been introduced by the government other than the Op-Ed,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sessions also declared: &#8221; \u201cHer continued detention cannot stand,\u201d stating that keeping her locked up \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/09\/us\/judge-orders-government-release-tufts-student.html\">potentially chills<\/a> the speech of the millions and millions of people in this country who are not citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u\" dir=\"auto\">This case is another huge unforced error by Trump team. What if their primary goalto chill the speech of millions of students and others?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mahsa Khanbabai, Ozturk&#8217;s attorney, declared, &#8220;When did speaking up against oppression become a crime? When did s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-ordered-released-immediately-ice-custody-rcna205868\">peaking up against ge<\/a>nocide become something to be imprisoned for?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jessie Rossman, another attorney for Ozturk, commented, &#8220;For 45 days, R\u00fcmeysa has been detained in Louisiana \u2014 over 1300 miles from her friends, her community, and her lawyers. During that time, she has suffered regular and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-ordered-released-immediately-ice-custody-rcna205868\">escalating asthma a<\/a>ttacks. And at the same time, the government has failed to produce any justification for her detention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I first wrote about the Ozturk case on March 31 &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/first-they-came-op-ed-writers\">First They Came for the Op-Ed Writers<\/a>.&#8221; On April 16, I followed up with &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/foreign-student-persecution-imperils-any-american-who-advocates-freedom\">Foreign Student Persecution Imperils Any American Who Advocates for Freedom<\/a>.&#8221; Mises Institute&#8217;s Ryan McMaken and I discussed the Ozturk case on a Radio Rothbard podcast entitled: &#8220;Why <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/podcasts\/radio-rothbard\/why-did-trump-arrest-student-writing-op-ed\">Did Trump Arrest<\/a> a Student for Writing an Op-ed?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But this farce isn&#8217;t over yet. As Politico noted, &#8220;Sessions\u2019 order, while expressing severe doubts about the constitutionality of Ozturk\u2019s detention and deportation, only applies to her immediate confinement. Efforts by the Trump administration to deport Ozturk will continue in immigration court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How much longer will the Trump Ozturk Follies continue?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[reposted on the Mises Institute blog and the Libertarian Institute blog and elsewhere] FEDERAL JUDGE SETS FREE OP-ED WRITER Federal judge orders Trump administration to release Tufts University grad student Rumeysa Ozturk from ICE lockup. Ozturk, who had a valid student visa from Turkey, was only guilty of writing an op-ed.\u00a0 Secretary of State Marco [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[391,1291,4504,649,708,4505],"class_list":["post-21598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-censorship","tag-dhs","tag-ozturk","tag-rubio","tag-trump","tag-tufts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Federal Judge Sets Free Op-Ed Writer - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Federal judge orders release of Ozturk, Turkish grad student snatched off a street near Boston for writing an op-ed\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/09\/federal-judge-sets-free-op-ed-writer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Federal Judge Sets Free Op-Ed Writer - 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