The arrest and ongoing detention of a Tufts University graduate student over the publication of an op-ed for the school newspaper is a blatant violation of her First Amendment rights, according to a constitutional law expert at the CATO Institute and other advocacy groups.
The arrest and ongoing detention of a Tufts University graduate student over the publication of an op-ed for the school newspaper is a blatant violation of her First Amendment rights, according to a constitutional law expert at the CATO Institute and other advocacy groups.
Thomas Berry, the director of the Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, in a piece published by the libertarian think tank earlier this week, and according to an amicus brief the group filed with the federal courts, says that the U.S. government and Secretary of State Marco Rubio can not legally revoke a student’s visa over their protected speech, as seems to be the case with Rümeysa Öztürk.
“The Trump Administration is basically trying to enact an ideological test for who is allowed to be here,” Berry told the Herald on Thursday.
