A Biden-appointed federal judge in California just handed the campus intifada another gift.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Noël Wise, a Joe Biden leftover, ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment when it used national-security and foreign-policy authority to revoke the legal status of foreign students who spent the last two years turning American campuses into open-air Hamas rallies.
Wise, sitting in the Northern District of California, sided with The Stanford Daily and two unnamed international student journalists. They claimed Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visa revocations “chilled” their speech. The judge agreed.
In a 90-page opinion she declared that the Immigration and Nationality Act provisions Rubio used, the same tools Congress wrote to keep out people whose presence harms U.S. foreign policy, are unconstitutional as applied to protected speech.
The Gateway Pundit has reported for two years on what these “views” actually looked like.
After Hamas butchered 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, foreign students and their faculty handlers erected encampments, seized buildings, blocked Jewish students from class, and chanted “from the river to the sea.”
At Columbia, protest leaders praised “violent resistance” and the October 7 massacre.
Masked activists stormed an Israeli history class and handed out flyers showing a boot crushing a Star of David and the words “Burn Zionism to the ground.” Jewish students were told they were not welcome. Administrators folded.
President Trump said it plainly after taking office: resident aliens who joined the “pro-jihadist protests” would be found and deported.
Secretary Rubio said the same thing. A visa is a privilege, not a constitutional entitlement to run a political operation against U.S. foreign policy.
Rubio personally signed off on cases including Columbia’s Mahmoud Khalil, a green-card holder who helped lead Columbia University Apartheid Divest, and Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, whose visa was pulled after she co-authored an op-ed.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that ICE arrested Öztürk after she co-authored a pro-Palestinian newspaper op-ed. Öztürk later left the United States for Turkey after a prolonged deportation battle.
The Gateway Pundit also extensively covered the government’s battle to remove Khalil, including an earlier ruling by an Obama-appointed judge that blocked his immediate deportation.
In April, the Board of Immigration Appeals issued a final removal order against Khalil after rejecting his attempt to dismiss the deportation case.
The administration’s position has been consistent: if we had known what you intended to do here, you would never have gotten the visa.
Judge Wise called that a “campaign of speech-chilling retribution.”
Noël Wise is not a neutral umpire. She is a former Alameda County Superior Court judge, appointed to the federal bench by Biden in the lame-duck window.
In a 2020 Atlantic essay she complained that President Trump’s judicial appointees were “overwhelmingly white and male” and “don’t look like America.”
Republicans flagged the article at her confirmation. Democrats rammed her through anyway.
Now she lectures the elected government of the United States that “you can simultaneously hate the content of a person’s speech and love the country that cherishes the freedom to allow it.”
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