From the NY Times: A new lawsuit filed on [August 6] by a free speech watchdog takes aim at the key legal foundations that the Trump administration has relied on to arrest and attempt to deport foreign students over their criticism of the Israeli government. The challenge, filed in California, goes further than other lawsuits that have targeted the student arrests. The new suit focuses on a section of immigration law that allows the secretary of state to determine that a noncitizen poses a threat to the country’s foreign policy and can be removed from the country for that reason. It argues that it is unconstitutional to invoke the provisions for speech and other activities protected by the First Amendment.
Lawyers from the free speech group, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, brought the lawsuit on behalf of the student newspaper at Stanford University, The Stanford Daily, arguing that several of its staff members have been forced to self-censor or quit the paper out of fear that the government could retaliate for what it publishes...
Full story at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/us/politics/stanford-lawsuit-student-activist-deportations.html.
From Inside Higher Ed: ...Students for Fair Admissions, the organization that successfully fought to end race-conscious admissions practices, settled with two military academies that were exempted from the 2023 Supreme Court ruling that ended affirmative action, The New York Times reported. The Supreme Court ruled two years ago that military academies could continue to practice race-conscious admissions due to “potentially distinct interests” at such institutions. SFFA then sued, arguing such practices should be struck down. But on Monday, SFFA dropped its lawsuits against the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the United States Air Force Academy.
As part of the agreement, the Department of Defense, which oversees military service academies, will no longer consider race and ethnicity in admissions, according to settlement details, which emphasize recruiting and promoting individuals based on merit alone. That settlement also backed away from the notion that it has an interest in a diverse office corps...
Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/08/13/anti-affirmative-action-group-settles-military-academies.
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