Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Stanford Students Who Criticized Israel NYT > Top Stories By: Chris Cameron 29 August 2026 at 17:09 The ruling was a win for Stanford’s student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, and it followed another court victory for students targeted by the Trump administration last year. © Jim Wilson/The New York TimesA lawsuit argued that student journalists had been forced to self-censor out of fear of government retaliation.