An American flag is seen above as President Donald Trump stops to speak with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, on September 21. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images/File

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-Palestinian protesters on college campuses, or retaliate against them because of their positions. The opinion rules against the Trump administration’s immigration policy, and executive orders, a

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