Donald Trump Legal Oversight

U.S. District Judge William Young issued a nationwide remedial order barring the Trump administration from altering the immigration status of noncitizen members of the American Association of University Professors and the Middle East Studies Association who were members between March 25 and Sept. 30, 2025, whose status had not expired and who committed no crimes after Sept. 30, 2025, and he ruled that any such change will be presumed retaliatory, shifting the burden to the government to prove otherwise. Young said the president, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio engaged in an “unconstitutional conspiracy” to chill pro‑Palestinian speech and tied the order to a broader campaign targeting thousands of campus protesters, while the administration argues the individuals were “pro‑Hamas”; AP has not identified any members whose status has been changed.