Mahmoud Khalil, Columbia
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The ruling found that efforts to deport pro-Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil likely overtepped, but it stopped short of ordering his release from detention.
The Palestinian rights advocate spoke at length as part of a 10-hour hearing Thursday as the U.S. attempts to deport him. A ruling in his case was not made.
Khalil’s argument is ‘so frivolous’ and ‘unprofessional’ that his lawyers ‘should be subject to discipline,’ one legal scholar says.
The Trump administration’s use of an obscure portion of immigration law to detain and attempt to deport pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is likely unconstitutional, according to an order issued Wednesday by a federal judge in New Jersey.
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Free speech is one of the foundations of our freedom, but that's in jeopardy. Jailing students for political views endangers First Amendment protections.