FILE: The campus of Stanford University, including Hoover Tower, as seen from Stanford Stadium on Nov. 1, 2025, in Palo Alto, Calif.

A federal judge has delivered a First Amendment victory to a student news outlet at Stanford University. 

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Noël Wise ruled that immigration provisions that allowed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to revoke student visas had a chilling effect on noncitizen student journalists at the Stanford Daily. Wise wrote that portions of two federal immigration provisions are unconstitutional when used against noncitizens for speech protected by the First Amendment. 

Article continues below this ad

The Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation brought the lawsuit alongside two anonymous students unaffiliated with Stanford, though one student was later dismissed from the case. The plaintiffs were represented pro bono by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE. 

“The reporters in our newsroom shouldn’t have to fear that writing a story will result in their deportation,” Daily editor-in-chief George Porteous wrote following the ruling. “Today’s victory means they won’t have........

© SFGate