The case of two fired judges \u2013 and one who kept his job \u2013 offers a lesson in the administration\u2019s view of free speech<\/p>\n
The Trump administration believes<\/a> some noncitizens may not even have first amendment rights. And it\u2019s turning that legal fantasy into a reality by making immigration judges choose between the constitution and their jobs.<\/p>\n Last week, the judge who rejected the deportation of R\u00fcmeysa \u00d6zt\u00fcrk, the Tufts doctoral student whose only<\/a> offense was co-writing an op-ed critical of Israel, was fired<\/a> after upholding the law. Judge Roopal Patel rejected the administration\u2019s argument that expressing views shared by millions of Americans disturbed by the carnage in Gaza \u2013 sometimes<\/a> including<\/a> Donald Trump himself \u2013 equates to supporting terrorism and antisemitism.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The case of two fired judges \u2013 and one who kept his job \u2013 offers a lesson in the administration\u2019s view of free speech The Trump administration believes some noncitizens may not even have first amendment rights. And it\u2019s turning that legal fantasy into a reality by making immigration judges choose between the constitution and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}