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Judge: Premature to block midshipman's expulsion over tweets

by Michael Kunzelman
| December 23, 2020 8:09 AM

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — A federal judge in Baltimore has ruled that it is premature for her to decide whether to block the U.S. Naval Academy from expelling a midshipman for posting social media messages deemed to be crude, noting a senior Navy official has not made a final disciplinary decision.

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