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Mahmoud Khalil just got a TKO against Rubio and Noem
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Date: January 15th, 2026 10:39 PM Author: https://i.imgur.com/ovcBe0z.png The trial last summer focused on the targeting of five noncitizen students and scholars: Mahmoud Khalil, Yunseo Chung and Mohsen Mahdawi, who were students at Columbia University; Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student at Tufts University; and Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral scholar at Georgetown University.
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Date: January 16th, 2026 11:02 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, i thought this was a reverse willy thread because the news yesterday appeared to bad news for Khalil. it's being reported that the Third Circuit interpreted immigration law as not providing Khalil a habeas remedy. (i am not an expert on any of this.)
Appeals Court Just Handed the Trump Administration Major Victory in Mahmoud Khalil's Case
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday overturned a lower court’s ruling that stopped the Trump administration from detaining or deporting former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil.
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Khalil, a 30-year-old Palestinian activist, has been fighting deportation since March last year, when ICE agents arrested him at his apartment.
The authorities held Khalil in a facility in Louisiana until a federal judge in New Jersey ordered his release in June 2025, arguing that the government’s actions were likely unconstitutional. The appeals court determined that the judge did not have the authority to issue such a ruling, according to CNN.
A federal appeals panel on Thursday reversed a lower court decision that released Mahmoud Khalil from an immigration jail, bringing the government one step closer to detaining and ultimately deporting the Palestinian activist.
A three-judge panel of the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia instructed the lower court to dismiss Khalil’s habeas petition, a court filing that secured his release. The panel ruled the federal district court in New Jersey did not have jurisdiction over the matter because immigration challenges are handled differently under the law.
In a 2-1 decision, the panel ruled that federal immigration laws require deportation challenges to be made by filing a petition for review of a final order of removal with a federal appeals court — not a lower-level district court.
“That scheme ensures that petitioners get just one bite at the apple—not zero or two,” the panel wrote. “But it also means that some petitioners, like Khalil, will have to wait to seek relief for allegedly unlawful government conduct.”
The law bars Khalil “from attacking his detention and removal in a habeas petition,” the panel added. |