The Southern Poverty Law Center has noted that the conservative youth organization, founded by the late Christian nationalist activist Charlie Kirk, employs a strategy of 'sowing and exploiting fear that white Christian supremacy is under attack by nefarious actors, including immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community and civil rights activists.'
Judge Noel Wise pressed government attorneys on how visa-revocation statutes are applied and whether they disproportionately target students who expressed sympathy for Palestinians during Israel's war in Gaza. She also questioned whether a chilling effect on speech, absent any formal enforcement action, is enough to show plaintiffs have been harmed.
