Reagan appointee moves to protect those challenging arrest and deportation of pro-Palestinian activists
A federal judge described Donald Trump as an authoritarian and accused his administration of “an unconstitutional conspiracy to pick off certain people” in its aggressive pursuit of non-US citizen, pro-Palestinian activists on American college campuses.
The judge in Boston, who was appointed by the Republican president Ronald Reagan, said on Thursday that he would issue an order aimed at protecting academics who challenged the arrest and deportation of such activists, including some of the highest-profile cases such as those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk.
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