23-07-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Trump Cracked Down on Campus Protesters. A Court Will Decide How Far He Can Go.
President Trump's immigration-enforcement tactics have been defined by a muscular use of executive power with little precedent. Now, a federal judge is tasked with deciding whether to curtail that approach against foreigners in the U.S. legally.
U.S. District Judge William Young in Boston wrapped up a closely watched trial this week on the administration's targeting of international students engaged in campus activism. Following a series of high-profile arrests of pro-Palestinian protesters, faculty groups are pressing a broad legal effort to head off similar future arrests.