Trump Cabinet secretaries conspired to violate Constitution, judge says

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5. non paywall...and key points from the trial last year

https://archive.ph/cCZfc

The 2025 trial revealed the machinery behind the Trump administration’s campus crackdown. Senior administration officials directed personnel at DHS who normally analyze transnational criminal networks to instead produce reports on students involved in pro-Palestinian protests, one official testified...

Working largely from Canary Mission’s list, Homeland Security Investigations, an arm of ICE, generated between 100 and 200 reports on student protesters, the official testified...

DHS then referred dozens of such reports to the State Department, recommending that it revoke the visas and green cards of those students and scholars, paving the way for their removal. Within weeks, some were arrested by masked agents in plainclothes and flown to detention facilities in Louisiana and Texas.

Officials and agents from Homeland Security Investigations testified that they had never been asked to compile reports on student protesters before 2025, nor to arrest noncitizen students because their immigration status had changed.