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Legal Opinions Usually Aren’t Exciting. This One Has Everyone Talking

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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Not since the years before the Civil War had a trial-level federal judge signed off on an opinion simply as “Judge of the United States.” But Senior Judge William Young, a nearly 50-year veteran trial-level judge in Massachusetts, decided the time is now, and then some. In a book-length opinion on Tuesday, Young ruled that the Trump administration can’t deny First Amendment protections to non-citizens, such as pro…
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Legal opinions usually aren’t exciting. This one has everyone talking

Not since the years before the Civil War had a trial-level federal judge signed off on an opinion simply as “Judge of the United States.”

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