A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration has violated the constitutional rights of international students in seeking to deport them for their pro-Palestinian activism and criticism of Israel. In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Noël Wise wrote, “In the United States, free speech, including the freedom to criticize the government and its leaders, is not a sign of our democracy’s fragility. It is evidence of its strength. That strength is diminished when members of our society — citizens and noncitizens alike — must self-censor and 'behave' or suffer the government’s retaliation.” The lawsuit was filed by the student newspaper The Stanford Daily, which claimed that some of its writers on student visas declined to cover pro-Palestinian protests or report on topics related to Israel, and requested their articles on such topics to be removed, fearing deportation.