Over the past several months, the Trump Administration has continued to target those who speak the truth to power. Through direct requests, financial threats, and proxy attacks by higher education administrators, there has been a notable rise in the use of fascist tactics to come after and punish students for their speech in support of […]
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Statement in Response to Trump Administration’s Unprecedented Demand that Harvard Dismantle Student Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 Email: hlsguild@mail.law.harvard.edu Instagram: @harvardnlg Last Friday, the Trump Administration privately sent a letter to Harvard University with a series of racist, reactionary, and unconstitutional demands attacking civil liberties, academic freedom, human rights, and racial justice. The letter explicitly calls on Harvard to defund and dissolve the Harvard Law School chapter of […]
Texas Tech Law’s Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild Calls for Action and Solidarity Against ICE’s Targeting of Immigrant Students
The Texas Tech Law Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) strongly condemns the recent actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the current Trump administration, which have resulted in the unjust arrest, detentions and targeting of international graduate students
The San Antonio Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) condemns Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s use of the courts to attack the City of San Antonio for a democratically approved San Antonio Reproductive Justice Fund
A majority of Texas voters support at least some access to abortion between the first 6 weeks to at any time during the pregnancy. The passage of San Antonio Reproductive Justice Fund reflects the desires of most Texans and was won through persistent advocacy by community members and their organizations. Using the courts to impede this democratically […]
National Lawyers Guild Condemns the Targeted Detention of Palestinian Student Organizer Mahmoud Khalil and Reiterates its Call for “Sanctuary Universities” to Protect their Students and Workers from Escalating State Repression
The National Lawyers Guild and its International Committee condemn the escalation of federal repression. The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil demonstrates a dangerous increase in both the criminalization of protest in the United States and the targeting of immigrants. It is also a frightening evolution in the ongoing assault against the movement of students […]
A call for Sanctuary Universities: Resisting Trump’s Executive Order and the Assault on Free Speech, Political Dissent, and Academic Freedom
On January 29th, 2025, former President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order that poses a direct and dangerous threat to university students and academic workers across the country. This order targets those engaged in protests or speech critical of Israeli settler colonialism and genocide, falsely equating these critiques with antisemitism and threatening First Amendment and […]



