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American Association of University Professors [#AAUP] v. #Rubio

A case challenging the #Trump administration’s policy of ideological deportation.

"On March 25, 2025, the Knight Institute filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian activism. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), AAUP’s #Harvard, #NYU, and #Rutgers campus chapters, and the #MiddleEastStudies Association, argues that the policy chills noncitizens from speaking and, by extension, robs these organizations and their U.S. citizen members of noncitizens’ perspectives on a matter of significant public debate.

"The lawsuit responds to a climate of repression and fear on university campuses. Federal agencies are attempting to deport multiple individuals for their #ProPalestinian advocacy, including #MahmoudKhalil, a leader of protests at Columbia University. These actions have sent chills through the community of noncitizen students and faculty on campuses around the country, causing some to pull out of academic conferences, stay home from #protests, and withdraw from other forms of public advocacy and engagement.

"The lawsuit alleges that the administration’s policy of ideological deportation violates the First Amendment right of the plaintiffs to hear from and associate with noncitizen students and faculty, that it is unconstitutionally vague, and that it violates the Administrative Procedure Act. The suit seeks a court order declaring that the policy is unlawful and enjoining the federal government from enforcing it."

Status: Complaint filed on March 25, 2025.

Case Information: American Association of University Professors v. Rubio, No. 1:25-cv-10685 (D.Mass).

knightcolumbia.org/cases/aaup-
#YunseoChung #RightToProtest #SilencingDissent #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #law
#immigration #FreeSpeech #MarcoRubio #Trump #FreedomOfAssembly #Authoritarianism #Palestine #CriminalizingDissent #HigherEducation

American Association of University Professors v. Rubio
Knight First Amendment InstituteAmerican Association of University Professors v. Rubio

President Donald Trump stepped up his criticism of a journalist who was accidentally added to a group chat about air strikes on Yemen, while denying that classified information was shared by US officials. "The guy's a total sleazebag," Trump said of The Atlantic magazine's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, adding that "nobody gives a damn" about the story that has sparked a major row in Washington. FRANCE 24's James Vasina reports.
#Signal #Trump #NationalSecurity

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As a New Jersey-raised Catholic of Italian descent, Greg Olear asks Leonard Leo, a New Jersey-raised Catholic of Italian descent with enormous political power through the Federalist society, if he's okay with what he and other right-wing Catholics have now set in motion:

"Although the legacy media is reluctant to say so, Musk has outed himself as a Nazi."

#Musk #Trump #Nazi #Catholics #LeonardLeo
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gregolear.substack.com/p/an-op

PREVAIL by Greg Olear · An Open Letter to Leonard Leo, Concerning the Trump/Musk LawlessnessBy Greg Olear
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"[Anthea Butler] lamented that as a result of the embrace of White Christian Nationalism, 'Christianity has destroyed democracy in America.'

'You need to understand that this brand of Christian Nationalism does not want a Christian world, nor does it want democracy. It wants power,' Butler added."

~ Brian Kaylor

#Trump #Republicans #evangelicals #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
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publicwitness.wordandway.org/p

A Public Witness · Notre Dame Conference Addresses ‘Pressing Crisis’ of Christian NationalismBy Brian Kaylor
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"You know that famous observation Trump made that his supporters are so loyal that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and they wouldn’t mind? That was at a speech in January of 2016 at Dordt College in Iowa, an evangelical school. He says that in the same speech where a few paragraphs earlier, he says, 'If you vote for me, you will have power.'"

~ Jonathan Rauch

#Trump #Republicans #evangelicals #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
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theunpopulist.net/p/a-revival-

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"Rather than tell themselves a story in which Trump may be a sinner but his goals are those of Jesus, they’ll just alter their value system to align with his; forced to choose between Trump and their lord and savior, they choose Trump."

This is why some members of the Black church in the US say that much of white Christianity in the US is heretical.

It has departed fundamentally from Jesus and the gospels.

#Trump #Republicans #evangelicals #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"[Elon Musk's statement that 'the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy'] echo[es] what is apparently a growing movement among evangelical Christians to explicitly reject empathy, because caring about the suffering of others might distract you from the more urgent task of accumulating power."

~ Paul Waldman

#Trump #Republicans #evangelicals #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
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paulwaldman.substack.com/p/con

The Cross Section · Conservatives Declare War on EmpathyBy Paul Waldman

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Dear DOGE, I want to report government waste.

While watching ABC news just 5 minutes ago, I saw a commercial that was paid for By Homeland Security, featuring Kristi Noem. The ad said Immigrants must leave and we are coming after you if you don’t leave now, President Trump will deport all immigrants.The ad was in English, no subtitle.Why is DHS spending our taxpayer dollar for an ad where the target audience probably isn’t watching ABCNews, in English.This ad was on a local ABC station in LA where you have Tele Mundo and many other Spanish speaking tv stations and over 30 tv stations in Asian languages. Why not target your ad there? Meanwhile, Fed employees are being fired for being lazy, fraud , thief, criminal, etc.Do something about this wasteful $$$$$

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