Getty Images A federal judge tore into senior Trump administration officials for what he described as sweeping violations of the Constitution as part of a “retribution” campaign against critics. U.S. District Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, didn’t hold back at a Thursday hearing in Boston federal court, accusing the administration of an “unconstitutional conspiracy” to deprive people of their rights. The comments came as the court weighed remedies for the administration’s detentions of pro-Palestinian students at U.S. universities, a campaign the judge has already ruled was unlawful. In unusually blunt language, the judge said the administration’s approach to free speech was rooted in fear and aimed at silencing those who did not fall in line. Read more at The Daily Beast.