BOSTON—Below are highlights from today’s proceedings in the trial before Judge William G. Young in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in a case challenging the Trump administration’s policy of ideological deportation.

• The court addressed the government’s invocation of certain evidentiary privileges, stating that he had previously rejected the government’s overbroad assertion of the law enforcement privilege, sustaining to a limited extent its reliance on the deliberative process privilege, and deferring decision as to the government’s invocation of the presidential communications privilege to withhold a report written by the Department of State and addressing “Authorities to Counter Anti-Semitism and Recommendations for Familiarizing Institutions of Higher Education with the Security and Related Grounds for Visa Inadmissibility.”  

• The court said it would hear tomorrow from ICE officials, including Patrick Cunningham, William Crogan, and Darren McCormack.

A transcript of today’s testimony will be available shortly here.

The trial began on Monday, July 7, 9:00 am ET and is expected to end on Friday, July 18, 1:00pm ET.

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Read more about the case here.

Lawyers on the case include Ramya Krishnan, Jameel Jaffer, Alex Abdo, Scott Wilkens, Carrie DeCell, Xiangnong (George) Wang, Talya Nevins, Jackson Busch, and Stephany Kim for the Knight First Amendment Institute, Ahilan Arulanantham, Michael Tremonte, Noam Biale, Alexandra Conlon, and Courtney Gans for Sher Tremonte, and Edwina Clarke and David Zimmer for Zimmer, Citron & Clarke.