{"id":32369,"date":"2025-10-03T00:02:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T00:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/?p=32369"},"modified":"2025-10-03T00:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T00:02:32","slug":"reagan-appointed-judge-once-rebuked-by-supreme-court-continues-to-lambaste-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/?p=32369","title":{"rendered":"Reagan-appointed judge, once rebuked by Supreme Court, continues to lambaste Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal judge appointed by Ronald Reagan has made headlines this year for penning some of the most blistering opinions against President Donald Trump\u2019s executive orders \u2014 including in one case where he was criticized by two Supreme Court justices for failing to adhere to the high court\u2019s emergency guidance.\u00a0
\nU.S. District Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, has spent nearly four decades on the federal bench. He most recently authored a scathing, 161-page opinion on Tuesday in a case involving Trump\u2019s attempts to deport and crack down on pro-Palestinian protesters and activists on college campuses.
\nYoung said the Trump administration\u2019s actions were illegal and an unconstitutional violation of free speech protections under the First Amendment. He also used the decision to criticize, at some length, Trump\u2019s broader conduct, which he described as \u2018bullying.\u2019<\/p>\n

Trump, Young argued, is a president who fundamentally misunderstands the country he was elected to serve. Young described Trump as focused largely on \u2018hollow bragging\u2019 and on \u2018retribution\u2019 at all costs.
\n\u2018Yet government retribution for speech (precisely what has happened here) is directly forbidden by the First Amendment,\u2019 Young quipped.
\nIt\u2019s not the first time Young has raised eyebrows for his public dressing-down of the commander in chief.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Young in June ruled that the Trump administration acted illegally when it slashed funding for research grants at the National Institutes of Health, siding with the grant recipients and ordering the funding be restored. He also used the opinion to describe the cuts as \u2018appalling\u2019 evidence of what he said was \u2018racial discrimination\u2019 and \u2018discrimination against the LGBTQ community.\u2019
\n\u2018That\u2019s what this is,\u2019 Young said at the time, adding that, in his decades on the federal bench, he had \u2018never seen government racial discrimination like this.\u2019
\n\u2018I would be blind not to call it out,\u2019 he said, adding later, \u2018Have we no shame?\u2019<\/p>\n

The Trump administration appealed Young\u2019s injunction to the First Circuit Court of Appeals, which declined to stay the ruling while the case continued to play out.
\nHowever, the Supreme Court voted\u00a05-4 in August to lift the injunction \u2014 and two justices took that opportunity to chastise Young, at least to some degree, for the manner in which he went about issuing the opinion.
\nJustices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh chastised Young for failing to adhere to an emergency ruling the court granted in April, which allowed Trump to follow through with slashing tens of millions of dollars in education grants for funding so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.\u00a0
\n\u00a0\u2018When this Court issues a decision, it constitutes a precedent that commands respect in lower courts,\u2019 Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh said in the August opinion.
\nJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in writing the dissent, appeared to sympathize with Young\u2019s view, noting at one point: \u2018Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules,\u2019 she said. \u2018We seem to have two: that one, and this administration always wins.\u2019
\nYoung, for his part, apologized for the error. But it appears to have done little to quell his desire to speak out on what he argued Tuesday is Trump\u2019s apparent disregard for free speech protections.\u00a0
\n\u2018I fear President Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interests are not affected,\u2019 Young said Tuesday, before adding: \u2018Is he correct?\u2019<\/p>\n

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