Sher Tremonte Represents Plaintiffs in Landmark Challenge to Trump Administration’s Ideological Deportation Policy

This week Sher Tremonte LLP completed what the New Yorker Magazine calls “the most consequential and far-reaching trial of the second Trump Presidency.” Sher Tremonte partnered with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University to represent the plaintiffs in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio, a challenge to the government’s policy of arresting, detaining, and attempting to deport university students and faculty for pro-Palestinian advocacy.  The trial, which lasted for two weeks in the District of Massachusetts, key details about the policy emerged for the first time through Sher Tremonte’s examinations of witnesses, including vigorous cross-examination of high-ranking government officials. Associate Alexandra Conlon delivered part of the closing argument, along with a senior attorney from the Knight Institute. In addition to Ms. Conlon, Sher Tremonte’s team included partners Noam Biale and Michael Tremonte, associate Courtney Gans, and paralegal Vignesh Senthil Kumar.

 

Read more in the NY Times here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/politics/trump-student-arrests-immigration-trial.html

Read more in the USA Today here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/07/21/trump-universities-deportations-free-speech-lawsuit/85300260007/

Read more in the New Yorker here:  https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/a-federal-trial-reveals-the-sprawling-plan-behind-trumps-attacks-on-pro-palestinian-students

Read more in The Wall Street Journal here: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-noncitizen-rights-palestinian-campus-protesters-8003fd81

Read more on Law360 here: https://www.law360.com/cases/67e2bc3ec2bbd1ee4cc278ea/articles