Immigration judges suing the Trump administration over gag rule saying it violates their right to free speech

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• In January, the Trump administration issued a rule prohibiting immigration judges from speaking about their job or their take on US policy.
• The one exception is judges who serve in their union. But the Trump administration is also trying to decertify that union.
• On July 1, the National Association of Immigration Judges filed a lawsuit alleging that the administration is violating the right to free speech.
• "We are in the midst of an urgent public debate about immigration reform in this country and some of the most crucial voices in that debate are being silenced," Ramya Krishnan, staff attorney at Columbia University's Knight First Amendment Institute, said in a July 1 statement.
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Immigration is Donald Trump's reliable fallback for inflaming his base, the alleged harm posed by immigrants serving as the red meat in inflammatory tweets and executive orders. 

At the same time, the administration led by this outspoken president has gagged the judges tasked with enforcing its laws at the border, prompting a lawsuit from those judges and free-speech advocates alleging that the US Constitution has been trampled.

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