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Kushal Dev @kushaldev.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
ICE has been arresting people outside of courthouses. A really despicable practice, described in detail by my brilliant colleague @allieschiele.bsky.social and the admirable @bradlander.bsky.social in the latest episode of @knightcolumbia.org's "The Bully's Pulpit."
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Standing up to ICE’s Courthouse Arrests
Podcast Episode · The Bully's Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment · 07/25/2025 · 37m
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Allie @allieschiele.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Honored to be featured alongside @bradlander.bsky.social for this week's podcast episode! Tune in to listen to this important discussion of ICE's disturbing practice of arresting immigrants at courthouses and the impact of these arrests on immigrants' First Amendment rights
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 25/07/2025
🔊NEW EPISODE: Reports nationwide describe chaos unfolding in courthouses as ICE agents descend on immigration proceedings to arrest & detain noncitizens. Our guests (more below) discuss 1A implications & their own harrowing accounts with host @cristianfarias.com. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Standing up to ICE’s Courthouse Arrests
Podcast Episode · The Bully's Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment · 07/25/2025 · 37m
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 22/07/2025
In Boston, the most consequential and far-reaching trial of the second Trump Presidency has been set in motion: A.A.U.P. v. Rubio, which challenges the Administration’s systematic campaign to arrest, detain, and deport pro-Palestinian student protesters.
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A Federal Trial Reveals the Sprawling Plan Behind Trump’s Attacks on Pro-Palestinian Students
In Boston, a Reagan appointee is on pace to get to the bottom of the campaign against Mahmoud Khalil and others the Administration wants to deport over their activism.
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 08/07/2025
“We’re pleased with today’s decision and look forward to seeking justice on behalf of El Faro journalists in U.S. court, where the case belongs,” says @carriedecell.bsky.social. Learn more & see statement from @elfaroenglish.bsky.social's @carlosdada.bsky.social: knightcolumbia.org/content/appe...
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Appeals Court Revives Journalists’ Case Against Spyware Manufacturer NSO Group
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
JUST IN: the Ninth Circuit has revived the @elfaroenglish.bsky.social case against NSO Group. Congrats to my @knightcolumbia.org colleague @carriedecell.bsky.social, who argued the appeal, and to our co-counsel at Selendy Gay. Statement coming shortly. knightcolumbia.org/documents/1x...
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 07/07/2025
Day 1 of the AAUP v. Rubio trial will wrap shortly. Join a livestream of our press conference and rally at 1:30pm ET for a recap. You'll also hear from @aaup.org reps about the effects of Trump admin’s ideological deportation policy on students and faculty nationwide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9VB...
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AAUP v. Rubio Press Conference & Rally
YouTube video by Knight First Amendment Institute
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 07/07/2025
“If the First Amendment means anything, it means the government can’t lock you up because it doesn’t like what you have to say," says @ramyakrishnan.bsky.social in conversation with @zjmontague.bsky.social in @nytimes.com about our AAUP v. Rubio trial underway. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
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Trial Over Free Speech on Campus, and Trump’s Student Crackdown, Begins
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Trial opens tomorrow in AAUP v. Rubio, a challenge--brought by @aaup.org, @mesa1966.bsky.social, and @knightcolumbia.org--to the Trump admin's arrests and attempted deportation of students who engaged in pro-Palestinian advocacy. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
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Trump’s effort to deport pro-Palestinian activists goes to trial
The case challenging the administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian academics marks the first major trial of Trump’s second term.
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 16/06/2025
"It creates a very different feeling knowing that your mail is living on for years, and long after you leave that facility people there can pull that letter up at any moment. That creates a chilling effect," says @stephaniekrent.bsky.social in @law360.bsky.social. www.law360.com/articles/235...
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Electronic Tablets Allow Inmates To Connect — With A Cost - Law360
Authorities say the increased use of electronic tablets in prisons and jails helps inmates communicate with family and access entertainment, but advocates warn that the tablets lead to less connection...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/06/2025
Incarcerated people “cherish the ability to keep a favorite letter or a child's drawing in their pocket to pull out when they're having a bad day," EFF’s Cara Gagliano told @law360.bsky.social. "That's not possible with San Mateo's digitized mail policy."
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Electronic Tablets Allow Inmates To Connect — With A Cost - Law360
Authorities say the increased use of electronic tablets in prisons and jails helps inmates communicate with family and access entertainment, but advocates warn that the tablets lead to less connection...
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 13/06/2025
We just filed a new #FOIA request for records about ICE's courthouse arrest policy. A recent surge in ICE arrests at courthouses reinstates a controversial practice from the first Trump administration. More on this in a blog post by @allieschiele.bsky.social. knightcolumbia.org/blog/institu...
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Institute Files New FOIA Request for Records About ICE’s Courthouse Arrest Policy
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Allie @allieschiele.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Today, @knightcolumbia.org filed a FOIA request to learn more about ICE’s policy of arresting noncitizens in and around courthouses. Recent reports have described chaotic scenes where ICE agents arrest noncitizens in courthouse hallways & sidewalks after immigration proceedings and other cases (1/4)
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Published this morning: An open letter from free speech and press freedom advocates urging leaders of universities, media organizations, law firms, civic institutions to “stand more resolutely” against “Trump’s multi-front assault on the First Amendment.” knightcolumbia.org/content/an-o...
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 08/05/2025
NSO Group has been rightly criticized for helping dictators and authoritarians spy on journalists and other members of civil society, but it hasn't stopped. Hopefully, this multi-million verdict against them will finally get their attention.
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Jury orders NSO to pay $167 million for hacking WhatsApp users
The verdict is a major victory for opponents of exploit sellers.
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Natalia Krapiva 🕊️👩🏻‍💻 @natynettle.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
NSO to pay almost 168 million in damages! Congrats to WhatsApp on this historic (yes, historic) jury verdict against NSO Group! This is also a win for all the researchers, advocates & victims who have been tirelessly exposing NSO's abuses & advocating for justice! www.accessnow.org/press-releas...
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NSO Fined $168 Million for Pegasus Spyware Attack on WhatsApp
In a landmark verdict, NSO Group must pay almost $168 million in damages for using Pegasus spyware to target WhatsApp.
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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
BREAKING: jury awards massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group. Precedent-setting win against notorious #Pegasus spyware maker. Very consequential for victims to see this. Congratulations to #WhatsApp on sticking this case through since 2019. Some thoughts 1/
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
From the reply brief @knightcolumbia.org @aaup.bsky.social & @mesa1966.bsky.social filed last night in our challenge to the lawless arrests of student protesters. knightcolumbia.org/documents/2d...
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Legit the best thing any Dem has done to date in response to Trump and it happened because he cared more about serving his constituents than public polling about immigration.
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 10/04/2025
📍TODAY at 9:00am PT: @carriedecell.bsky.social will appear before the Ninth Circuit in Dada v. NSO Group, a lawsuit we filed on behalf of journalists & other members of @elfaroenglish.bsky.social who were the victims of Pegasus #spyware attacks. Watch the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A2f...
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Pasadena Courtroom 1 9:00 AM Thursday 4/10
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
My @knightcolumbia.org colleague @carriedecell.bsky.social will be arguing this case before the Ninth Circuit tomorrow on behalf of journalists from @elfaroenglish.bsky.social whose phones were hacked with NSO Group's spyware. 12:00 ET, link to audio below. www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
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A Hacked Newsroom Brings a Spyware Maker to U.S. Court
When Roman Gressier, an American reporter working in El Salvador, found out that he and his colleagues were being surveilled, he feared persecution and worried for his sources’ safety.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 08/04/2025
The systems also have filtering capabilities, which can restrict students’ access to certain websites and pages based on their content.
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School-Issued Laptops Are Monitoring Students' Every Word
Nearly half of K-12 students are subject to digital surveillance systems.
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Allie @allieschiele.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Check out my colleague Jen's op-ed in @teenvogue.com discussing our case seeking records on AI-powered surveillance in schools!
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 02/04/2025
What happens when AI-powered #surveillance coincides with an authoritarian assault on public education? The transparency needed to answer that question doesn't exist, says staff attorney Jennifer Jones in today’s @teenvogue.com. So we've sued a TX school district. www.teenvogue.com/story/school...
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School-Issued Laptops Are Monitoring Students' Every Word
Nearly half of K-12 students are subject to digital surveillance systems.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
It’s comforting for some lawyers to lament the “tough spot” Trump has put some law firms in. But I choose to remember what civil rights lawyers endured, and the integrity & courage they showed despite being considerably more vulnerable that well-resourced law firms being bullied by Trump.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/03/2025
Groups representing university professors sued the Trump administration on Tuesday. The lawsuit says the detention of noncitizen students and faculty members deprives U.S. citizens of their right to engage with foreign-born peers and to hear their perspectives.
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Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Arrests of Campus Protesters
The lawsuit says the detention of noncitizen students and faculty members deprives U.S. citizens of their right to engage with foreign-born peers.
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Alex Abdo @alexabdo.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
JUST FILED: our new suit challenging the Trump administration's policy of deporting faculty and students for engaging in pro-Palestinian speech. Filed on behalf of @aaup.bsky.social, @mesa1966.bsky.social, and AAUP's NYU, Harvard, and Mass. chapters. knightcolumbia.org/content/aaup...
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AAUP, Middle East Studies Association, Knight Institute Sue Over Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful Speech
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 12/03/2025
NEWS: @knightcolumbia.org & SMU'S First Amendment Law Clinic just filed a lawsuit seeking records related to the use of #AI surveillance technology in a TX school district, citing concerns the systems undermine students' privacy & free speech rights. Learn more: knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...
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Knight Institute and SMU Law Clinic Seek Immediate Release of Records Related to Texas School’s Use of Surveillance Technology
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ACLU @aclu.org · 06/03/2025
The government has increasingly invoked an overly broad law known as the Foreign Agents Registration Act to stigmatize, stifle, and sanction viewpoints it doesn’t like. We're asking the court to ensure FARA isn't used to violate the First Amendment.
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Xiangnong (George) Wang @georgewang.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Check out @knightcolumbia.org & @aclu.org's just-filed amicus brief in support of Dr. Sue Mi Terry in a case raising important questions about the scope of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...
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Knight Institute and ACLU Urge Court to Construe Foreign Agent Registration Act Narrowly
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Also just filed: @knightcolumbia.org brief in support of Sue Mi Terry, arguing that the First Amendment requires that the Foreign Agents Registration Act be construed narrowly. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 05/03/2025
“The First Amend bars the WH from excluding news organizations from the press pool based on their editorial judgments. The court should reinstate @apnews.com & categorically reject the admin’s unconstitutional effort to control the news,” @jameeljaffer.bsky.social knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...
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Knight Institute Urges Court to Restore AP to White House Press Pool
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Alex Abdo @alexabdo.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We (@knightcolumbia.org) just filed a motion in Pres. Trump's criminal case in FL, seeking Volume II of the special counsel's report. Our motion argues that disclosure is required under the common law and First Amendment rights of access to judicial documents. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...
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Knight Institute Seeks Immediate Release of Special Counsel’s Report on Trump’s Mishandling of Classified Documents
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"You can purge a website of the words climate change, but that doesn’t mean climate change goes away." (Good NYT story about one of two legal actions we filed this morning.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/c...
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Farmers Sue Over Deletion of Climate Data From Government Websites
The data, which disappeared from Agriculture Department sites in recent weeks, was useful to farmers for business planning, the lawsuit said.
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Carrie DeCell @carriedecell.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Trump’s poised to order deportation of pro-Palestinian student protestors. Here’s the thing—the First Amendment protects everyone in the United States, including foreign citizens studying at American universities. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump administration to cancel student visas of all 'Hamas sympathizers', White House says
U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday to combat antisemitism and pledge to deport non-citizen college students and other resident aliens who took part in pro-Palestinian protests, a White House official said.
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 17/01/2025
For years, foreign govt’s have used NSO's #spyware to target journalists & activists, but efforts to hold NSO accountable in U.S. courts have been mixed. The Institute’s @allieschiele.bsky.social suggests that recent developments are an important step forward. www.justsecurity.org/106536/nso-w...
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Spyware Company NSO Group Faces Setbacks in Attempts to Avoid US Lawsuits
In a case brought by WhatsApp, a US court ruled that the NSO Group was liable for hacking and breach of contract.
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Allie @allieschiele.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The recent decision in WhatsApp is a significant step forward in holding NSO Group accountable for enabling human rights abuses around the world. Courts should not be reluctant to follow suit.
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 17/01/2025
For the first time, a US court has found the #spyware company NSO Group liable for hacking and breach of contract in a case brought by WhatsApp. @allieschiele.bsky.social explains how the case might promote future accountability efforts in the United States. www.justsecurity.org/106536/nso-w...
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Spyware Company NSO Group Faces Setbacks in Attempts to Avoid US Lawsuits
In a case brought by WhatsApp, a US court ruled that the NSO Group was liable for hacking and breach of contract.
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 17/01/2025
Supreme Court’s #TikTok Ruling Weakens Our Democracy, Knight Institute Says Full statement at the link: knightcolumbia.org/content/supr...
The following can be attributed to Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute:

“TikTok’s future will turn on politics, not on today’s ruling by the Supreme Court. But make no mistake, by allowing the ban to go into effect, the Supreme Court has weakened the First Amendment and markedly expanded the government’s power to restrict speech in the name of national security. Its implications for TikTok may be limited, but the ruling creates the space for other repressive policies in the future.”
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
This is a big deal. It means a modicum of accountability for NSO Group, the world's most notorious monger of malicious spyware. And it's a warning to the many other outfits that are making money by helping terrible regimes persecute journalists, human rights activists, and political dissidents.
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US judge finds Israel's NSO Group liable for hacking in WhatsApp lawsuit
A U.S. judge ruled on Friday in favor of Meta Platform Inc's WhatsApp in a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the WhatsApp messaging app to install spy software allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including journalists, human rights activists and dissidents.
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