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VIDEO VERSION OF THIS STORY HERE<\/h2>\n

Trump Censorship Machine Loses Again in Court<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard, August 31, 2026 \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Trump administration\u2019s crusade to crush campus criticism took another wallop on Friday in a California courtroom<\/strong>. Federal judge No\u00ebl Wise ruled<\/a> that the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cideological-deportation policy\u201d brazenly violated the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n

The Stanford Daily<\/em>, one of the best-known college student newspapers in the nation, sued the Trump administration for changing its \u201cimmigration policy and pattern of enforcement, namely by arresting, detaining, and deporting students with F-1 visas when those students use their freedom of speech to express opinions that the government does not like.\u201d It asserted that the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cactions have specifically impacted Stanford Daily<\/em> by decreasing the quantity and diversity of opinion pieces The Stanford Daily<\/em> is able to publish on the conflict between Israel and Palestine.\u201d Foreign students who had written on the issue requested that their previous articles be deleted, and other foreign students were no longer willing to comment on hot issues.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration claims unlimited discretion to silence foreign students by deporting those whose opinions it disapproves.<\/strong> Judge Wise wrote, \u201cThe language of the [First] Amendment makes clear that it is not the government that gives freedom of speech to the people. Instead, that freedom is imbued in the people\u2026. It is not the government\u2019s to take.\u201d This is a notion that conservatives instinctively understand when it comes to the Second Amendment and the right of self-defense. But many people fail to recognize the same right for freedom of speech. Conor Fitzpatrick, the chief supervising attorney at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which represented the student newspaper, declared, \u201cToday\u2019s ruling proves that free speech isn\u2019t a privilege, but the inalienable right of every man, woman, and child.\u201d FIRE president Greg Lukianoff clarified the scope of the ruling: \u201cThis ruling does NOT say the government must admit anyone, issue anyone a visa, or grant anyone citizenship. It says that once a person is lawfully here, the government cannot deport them because they engaged in protected speech. The government cannot tell a legal immigrant: An American is free to say this, but if you say it, you\u2019re out.\u201d<\/p>\n

George Porteous, Editor-in-Chief of Stanford Daily<\/em>, hailed the decision: \u201cThe reporters in our newsroom shouldn\u2019t have to fear that writing a story will result in their deportation. Today\u2019s victory means they won\u2019t have to.\u201d But it remains to be seen whether this latest judicial rebuff slows the Trump censorship juggernaut.<\/p>\n

When former president Donald Trump was campaigning to get elected as president in 2024, he openly promised at a campaign event, \u201cOne thing I do is, any student that protests, I throw them out of the country. You know, there are a lot of foreign students. As soon as they hear that, they\u2019re going to behave.\u201d This was a linchpin of the promise on Trump\u2019s campaign website to \u201cmake our college campuses safe and patriotic again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump presumed that non-citizens have zero right to free speech and his appointees have enforced that policy with an iron fist.<\/strong> On March 25, 2025, masked ICE agents seized<\/a> Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish graduate student, off the streets outside Boston. Ozturk was locked up for 45 days and her student visa covertly canceled because she co-authored an op-ed<\/strong> criticizing Tufts University for failing to divest from Israel in response to the genocide in Gaza. Secretary of State Marco Rubio vilified her as a \u201clunatic\u201d and implied that the feds had ample evidence of her crimes and abuses. Rubio later justified targeting Ozturk because she met the standard of \u201c people that are supportive of movements that run counter to the foreign policy of the United States.\u201d (Ironically, a large majority of Americans now oppose Trump\u2019s foreign policy regarding his war on Iran.) A leak to the Washington Post<\/em> revealed that the feds had nothing on her \u2013 except that op-ed. Federal Judge William Sessions ordered Ozturk released because her arrest \u201cpotentially chills<\/a> the speech of the millions and millions of people in this country who are not citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n

But that was the whole point.<\/p>\n

Last September, in a case similar to the Stanford Daily<\/em> case, federal judge William Young ruled that the Trump\u2019s administration\u2019s implementation of the Executive Orders [on foreign students] \u201cwas targeted intentionally at specific viewpoints in order to chill speech. The evidence presented at trial included the Public Officials\u2019 many public statements suggesting that they wished to staunch public protest related to Israel\u2019s treatment of Palestinians, including the President\u2019s campaign promise that he would put an end to the student protests on this issue by kicking out protestors.\u201d A Trump Executive Order interpreted \u201csupport\u201d for terrorists \u201cto be centered on core First Amendment speech and expressive conduct, such as attending public protests, leading such protests, or even publishing op-eds.\u201d Judge Young declared that he \u201csaw virtually no evidence that anyone along the way [any Trump official] seriously questioned whether pure political speech in support of Palestine or against Israel could be construed as support for terrorism.\u201d Instead, that was the self-evident truth driving the crackdown.<\/p>\n

The Stanford Daily<\/em> case vivified how far the Trump administration will go to snuff dissent. A New York Times headline<\/a> captured the essence of the case: \u201cJudge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Foreign Students Who Criticized Israel.\u201d If a foreign student engaged in violence at a protest, that would be sufficient to deport them regardless of their opinions. But the Trump administration cast a far wider net, relying heavily on a list of 5000 foreign students provided by the Canary Mission<\/a>, which, according to Wikipedia, is \u201can Israel-based anonymously-run doxing<\/a> website established in 2014 that publishes the personal information of students, professors, and organizations that it describes as anti-Israel<\/a> or antisemitic<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judge Wise\u2019s decision included stunning examples of how far the Trump administration stretched its definition of terrorist support or antisemitism to justify deporting aliens. John Armstrong, the chief of the Department of State\u2019s Bureau of Consular Affairs, carried out Secretary Rubio\u2019s crackdown on noncitizens. During legal proceedings, Armstrong was asked if a \u201cstatement calling for limiting military aid to Israel could be covered\u201d [i.e., sufficient to deport] He answered, \u201c[i]n my opinion, yes.\u201d When did foreign aid became sacred?<\/p>\n

Judge Wise concluded her 90-page ruling by declaring that the strength of American democracy<\/p>\n

\u2026is diminished when members of our society\u2014citizens and noncitizens alike\u2014must self-censor and \u201cbehave\u201d or suffer the government\u2019s retaliation. In March 2025, that retaliation was directed at those engaged in pro-Palestine and anti-Israel speech. In September 2025, caught in the government\u2019s net were people critical of Charlie Kirk. In May 2026, it potentially included \u201cweighing in on a peace deal that\u2019s being negotiated\u201d in Iran regarding the Strait of Hormuz. Tomorrow, or perhaps even today, targets may include anyone in the United States who exercises their freedom of speech to simply express opinions the government does not like.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That warning reverberates as the Trump administration further decimates the privacy of Americans returning from abroad, claiming the right to seize and copy all the contents on their cell phones.<\/strong> The Trump administration proposed that foreign visitors will have to surrender<\/a> their social media passwords before getting a visa to visit here. How long will it be until the same policy is imposed on American citizens?<\/p>\n

Judge Wise declared, \u201cFree speech, including the freedom to criticize the government and its leaders, is not a sign of our democracy\u2019s fragility. It is evidence of its strength.\u201d But is that \u201cstrength\u201d increasingly a mirage in the United States? And how many other illegal actions has the Trump administration taken to suppress dissent that Americans have not yet heard about?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Final question: Is the Trump administration seeking to vindicate every leftist stereotype about conservatives and Republicans being intolerant authoritarians?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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