Judge: Masked ICE Agents Look Like Modern Klansmen, Disgrace Government

Reagan-appointed judge slams Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian students

Judge William Young wrote a book-length order attacking “the problem this President has with the First Amendment.”

Judge: Masked ICE Agents Look Like Modern Klansmen, Disgrace Government

In ruling that the Trump Administration can’t constitutionally revoke visas and deport students who advocate for Palestinian rights, Judge William G. Young also comments on the masks Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agents wear while trampling the First Amendment: And there’s the issue of masks. This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for masking-up and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant T…

Conservative Judge Eviscerates Trump ICE Raids, Calls 'Cowardly' Masked Agents a Disgrace to American Honor

In a stunning and unflinching decision, a Reagan-appointed federal judge has delivered a scorching takedown of Donald Trump’s immigration tactics—drawing an explosive comparison between masked ICE agents and the Ku Klux Klan. On Tuesday, Judge Bill Young of Massachusetts issued a 161-page ruling that ripped into the Trump administration’s treatment of noncitizen students who had protested Israel’s occupation of Gaza. Young’s opinion wasn’t just …

Trump's masked ICE agents compared to KKK by Reagan-appointed judge

A federal judge in Massachusetts stunned observers on Tuesday with a scathing 161-page rebuke of President Donald Trump's administration for terrorizing noncitizen students for exercising their free speech rights to protest the Israeli occupation of Gaza. At various points, he criticized the administration's assault on basic constitutional rights and even addressed someone who sent his court a threatening message to deter a ruling against Trump.…

‘To Terrorize Americans Into Quiescence’: Reagan Judge Excoriates Trump

At least one judge gets it. U.S. District Judge William Young for the District of Massachusetts, a Ronald Reagan appointee, accused the Trump administration in…

'Terrorize Americans': GOP-appointed judge scorches Trump's 'armed masked secret police'

In a sharply worded ruling delivered Tuesday, U.S. District Judge William Young — a Ronald Reagan appointee — criticized U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents for their use of masks during operations, equating the practice to a tool of intimidation rather than protection.In his ruling, he wrote that “ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence,” and added that “In all our history we have never tol…