Gary Green is executive director of the Student Press Law Center. A journalist and journalism educator, he previously led the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University and worked in student-driven newsrooms at the University of Florida.
DI has documented statements by Gary Green on Education, Free Speech, and Immigration Policy, among other topics. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.
Role at the time: Student Press Law Center executive director
Condemned
Statement summary
Green welcomes the ruling and rejects using immigration law to silence student journalism.
“the government cannot weaponize immigration law to punish and silence speech it doesn’t like, including that of student journalists, their sources or their contributors”
The Stanford Daily and Jane Doe challenged immigration provisions used against protected expression. Judge Noel Wise granted declaratory relief limited to the challenged statutory portions. Federal defendants appealed on October 14, 2026; the plaintiffs defend the ruling.
