This is the same school where a mob of students shouted down a judge giving a talk in 2023.
The College Fix reports:
Stanford newspaper sues State Dept over international students’ right to free speechA federal court recently refused to dismiss a lawsuit that the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression filed against Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Trump administration for allegedly violating international students’ right to free speech at Stanford University.“We’re pleased with the court’s ruling. Deporting lawfully present noncitizens because of their opinions violates the First Amendment and betrays America’s commitment to freedom of speech,” Conor Fitzpatrick, supervising senior attorney for FIRE, told The College Fix via email last week.The lawsuit, filed on behalf of The Stanford Daily and two noncitizens, contends that the First Amendment protects foreign students’ right to free speech while they are in the U.S. legally.The campus free speech group alleges that students with visas who write for Stanford’s student newspaper “are declining assignments related to the conflict in the Middle East, worried that even reporting on the war will endanger their immigration status.”After FIRE filed the lawsuit in September, the Trump administration asked a federal judge to dismiss it, arguing that the plaintiffs lack standing to challenge the statutes.However, the Northern District Court of California rejected the administration’s motion to dismiss on Jan. 16, meaning the case can move forward.Next, both sides will propose a plan for when and how the court will resolve the case on the merits, Fitzpatrick said.“We feel confident that the First Amendment will prevail and lawfully present noncitizens should not have to fear deportation for expressing an opinion the government doesn’t like,” he told The Fix.The case challenges two immigration statutes that Rubio and the Department of State are using to allegedly target noncitizens for deportation based on protected speech.
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