Detention of Rümeysa Öztürk

This ruling finds the Trump administration in violation of the First Amendment, says that, um, Marco Rubio and Kristi Noem, uh, together and through officials in the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security, worked together to violate the First Amendment rights of protesters.

This isn't only the case of Mahmoud Khalil, of Rumeysa Öztürk, Ma- uh, Mohsen Madawi, all the names that you have heard.

This is the case that's taking on that policy writ large, and it's the first part of the ruling.

There is going to be a separate stage of the proceedings to determine remedy.

Um, it gets more scathing throughout.

We'll have a lot to talk about.

Um, he, in talking about Rumeysa Öztürk and the fact that she was arrested by masked ICE agents, he goes through a blistering aside where he compares the mask-wearing by ICE agents to, quote, "cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan," that that's the association that comes into his mind when we think about masks.

And in our, all our history, we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.

I mean, that was the point of what they did with Mahmoud Khalil, who all he had done was, um, participate in pro-Palestine protests.

The same with Rumeysa Öztürk, the, uh, Turkish student at Tufts University.

She had only co-authored an op-ed, uh, arguing for divestment from Israel, that Tufts should divest, um, its funds from Israel, and she was taken by masked men off the street on the way to a Ramadan dinner and put behind bars for weeks, and has had to fight to be able to stay in the country.

So all you have to do is get a, a couple of high-profile examples like that, and it intimidates, uh, Americans into silence.

Yep

... at the beginning of this administration, um, you know, students who, uh, Mohammed Khalil is the, uh, main one that we'll recognize, but the one that, like, really struck out to me was, uh, Rumeysa Öztürk, a, a doctoral student and Turkish national from Tufts University who wrote an op-ed or co-authored an op-ed suggesting that Tufts University divested from its support of Israel, um, and criticizing his school's response to the war in Gaza.

Um, Loeffler continues and says, "In the name of fighting antisemitism, the judge found the Trump administration trampled on the First and Fifth Amendments.

Uh, uh, combined with other recent legal defeats, the whistleblower allegation, it is yet more evidence that the administration has degraded civil rights laws under the guise of enforcing." Why antisemitism, though? Why is the Trump administration, which is indifferent to discrimination against so many other minority groups, hypervigilant about antisemitism? antisemitism on the left anyway.