A federal judge on Tuesday issued a decisive ruling against the Trump administration’s crackdown on free speech, siding with foreign students targeted for their support of Palestinian rights. The ruling underscores the constitutional protections afforded to all, regardless of nationality, and raises questions about the administration’s approach to political dissent on U.S. campuses. Massachusetts-based U.S. District Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, ruled that foreign students enjoy the same free speech protections under the Constitution’s First Amendment as American citizens. NBC News reports that Young found government officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, “deliberately and with purposeful aforethought concert[ed] the

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