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Levitsky attended Stanford and then UC Berkeley, and likely would have spent his career in relative obscurity, writing academic tomes about political parties in Argentina.

Already, the leadership at Stanford University has piped up in support, with a similar vow to tell Trump to shove his authoritarian demands.

Since Trump returned to office in January, elite institutions such as Stanford University have had to freeze hiring and cut budgets in the face of shrinking federal funds.

At the time of the predawn takeover, the defendants ranged in age from 19 to 32 and included both current Stanford students and graduates.

Thursday, those 12, all but one of them current or former Stanford students, were charged with two felonies each.