A federal judge has cleared the way for what prosecutors describe as the first-ever trial explicitly treating Antifa as a terrorist enterprise.
A Trump-appointed federal judge rejected attorneys’ motions to suppress significant evidence in an upcoming Texas terrorism trial centered around Antifa, granting prosecutors a key victory.
The charges trace back to the July 4, 2025, attack on the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. Defense attorneys tried to keep both the codefendant's statements and the evidence collected during home searches out of the courtroom. Judge Mark Pittman declined to do so.
One filing, titled Motion to Exclude Statements of Codefendant Meagan Morris, centered on post-arrest statements. The defense argued the statements should not be introduced at trial because doing so would violate constitutional confrontation protections. The motion states:
“Defendant Hill respectfully requests the Court order the exclusion of Morris’s statements and grant such other relief to which Defendant Hill may be entitled.”
The court rejected that request.
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Defense attorneys also attempted to suppress evidence obtained during home searches connected to the investigation. According to reporting summarizing the court filings, prosecutors intend to introduce seized materials, including:
• Firearms and ammunition
• Laptops, tablets, and cell phones
• Radios and signal-blocking “faraday bags”
• Printing devices and pamphlets
Those materials will now be permitted at trial.
The government’s broader legal theory appears in the October indictment, which describes Antifa as:
“a militant enterprise made up of networks of individuals and small groups primarily ascribing to a revolutionary anarchist or autonomous Marxist ideology, which explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and the system of law.”
Prosecutors allege nine defendants operated as a coordinated “terror cell,” organized travel to the ICE facility, vandalized property, used fireworks to draw officers out, and that alleged ringleader Benjamin Song fired shots at a local officer before going on the run.
Seven additional federal defendants have pleaded guilty in related proceedings.
With suppression motions denied, the case will proceed in the Northern District of Texas as prosecutors pursue what they characterize as the first federal trial formally treating Antifa as a terrorist enterprise.
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