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struggle4progress

(124,695 posts)
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 10:07 PM 9 hrs ago

Reagan-appointee Judge William Young on Free Speech Rights


Glenn Kirschner
Sep 30, 2025

In a scathing, 161-page opinion, Reagan-appointed Judge William Young ruled that Tump administration officials - specifically Kristi Noel and Marco Rubio - "deliberately and with purposeful aforethought, did so concert their actions . . . to chill the rights to freedom of speech and peacefully to assemble of the non-citizen plaintiff members and of the plaintiff associations" ...

... Judge Young spends the final dozen pages cataloguing Trump's illegality and bad behavior, in a section titled "Justice in the Trump Era." Sections of his opinion are labeled, "He ignores everything", "he keeps bullying ahead", and "Retribution."

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