Over Eighty Universities File Amicus Brief in Case Challenging Trump’s Speech-Based Deportations of Non-citizen Students
In a previous post, I urged universities to band together to file a lawsuit challenging Donald Trump’s policy of speech-based deportation of foreign students and academics. So far, I have had little, if any, success in persuading schools to do so. Many individual academics have expressed support for the idea (originated by the faculty of the Tufts Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy), but no university administrations have acted on it.
Still, I am happy to see that 86 colleges and associations thereof filed an amicus brief in a case challenging the deportations filed by the the Knight First Amendment Institute on behalf of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
Notable institutions joining the brief include Fordham, Georgetown, the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, Swarthmore, and my undergraduate alma mater Amherst College, among others. This is one of the very few issues on which Amherst agrees with traditional rival Williams College (which also joined the brief)!
While I commend the schools that joined the brief, it is not an adequate substitute for filing a lawsuit of their own. The case filed by AAUP and M
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