Stanford Student Newspaper Sues Trump Admin Alleging the Targeting of Pro-Palestinian Students
“arguing the government’s effort has impermissibly chilled students’ First Amendment rights”
The school paper is framing this as a free speech issue. This is the same school where a judge who was there to speak got shouted down by a student mob in 2023.
CNN reports:
Stanford’s student newspaper sues Trump administration over use of immigration law to target pro-Palestinian students
Stanford University’s student-run newspaper sued the Trump administration on Wednesday over its decision to use part of a federal immigration law to target and deport pro-Palestinian activists, arguing the government’s effort has impermissibly chilled students’ First Amendment rights.
The lawsuit, filed at a federal court in California, represents the latest legal challenge to two provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act that have been key to the State and Homeland Security Departments’ so-called ideological deportation policy. In several other cases brought around the country, judges have also been asked to weigh the constitutionality of the INA provisions and the administration’s policy around them.
The California case was brought by the organization that publishes The Stanford Daily and two noncitizen former college students who fear their pro-Palestinian views or advocacy could put them at risk of being deported. Attorneys for the newspaper said in the lawsuit that international students on staff are turning down assignments related to the war in Gaza or “seeking removal of their previous articles about it.”
“Since the Trump administration began targeting lawfully present noncitizens for deportation based on protected speech in March 2025, lawfully present noncitizen students working at and contributing to Stanford Daily have self-censored expression for fear of visa revocation, arrest, detention, and deportation,” attorneys from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which brought the new case, wrote in court papers.
One of the INA provisions at issue gives Secretary of State Marco Rubio the authority to decide that a noncitizen is removable if he “personally determines” that the individual’s views “would compromise a compelling United States foreign policy interest.” The other gives the secretary the power to “at any time, in his discretion” revoke a visa.
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Don’t commit a crime while committing another crime. Monty Python covered this 50 years ago in “How not to be seen.”
Fortunately, a neighbor told us where he was hiding.
How in the world would a newspaper have standing to pursue this issue?
I’m also mystified that a newspaper is sueing on other unnamed people’s behalf over something that does not directly involve them. Where is their standing?
And where exactly is this mythical country of “Palestine”, except in the imagination of Yassar Arafat, 7th century primitives, and stupid college kids?
Before a judge appointed by the Kenyan communist, or Potatobrain.
Tough luck bigots.
I am guessing the real issue not that certain students were prohibited from expressing their opinions. But rather that certain foreign students have their visas canceled because those visas were issued with the understanding that the students would be students of academic subjects rather than their actions as protestors for issues that contravene the US foreign policy. Understanding there are consequences for ones actions is a valuable lesson that they should take to heart.
But the Left believe consequences should be restricted to those who are non-Left. Privilege is what the Left demand for themselves.
Stanford’s student newspaper sues Trump administration.
Drag out the case. Bankrupt the student toiletpaper.
Next, dumb kids will want to shout fire in a crowded theater, claiming that’s free speech.