Mahmoud Khalil's legal team keeps sending Judge Farbiarz order after order from judges finding in favor of other international students targeted for deportation by the Trump admin. Maybe one day he'll issue his own! [storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...](📄.pdf ) https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreiftdw4ylbblv3oxchlytpdfromahmnguthalx6md252hutzne5lxi
NEW: The govt wants Rümeysa Öztürk to notify ICE about any overnight travel outside MA/VT, get ICE's written permission to move, follow all doctors' instructions, and "surrender for removal from the United States if so ordered." (The judge may veto conditions.) [www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...]( ) https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreieqsvnkvvqjavvuhgxg3xo4hqtqho25dgava7gw4commnmptbqwse https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreicleignfweap24i4et4t3tuiyortqzzkqpcq7a5zjoxf3mutpsr5i
NEW: Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia ask Judge Xinis to reject the govt's privilege assertions: "Even as the Government speaks freely about Abrego Garcia in public, in this litigation it insists on secrecy." [storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...](📄.pdf ) https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreiegwemqtuwrgkxc2sa47kitumn6ze3r47l2fgxxobclg5gu5eczma
Rümeysa Öztürk has been freed!! [Tufts student detained by ICE ...]( )
HAPPENING NOW: Rümeysa Öztürk appears remotely for her bail hearing in Vermont federal court! 🧵
I’ll always associate Justice Souter with one of my favorite SCOTUS oral-argument moments, in Chicago v. Morales (anti-gang loitering law), when he asked plaintively why it isn't enough of a "purpose" for being in a public place if you just want to sit outside and watch the cars go by ❤️ https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreig6y2dzfnxkhkuidcy5zmyh2oh7qu2m75gorkhtzgh5xb3ghqpydu
NEW: In the Mahmoud Khalil case, Judge Farbiarz orders the government to give him a COMPLETE LIST of every time since 1975 it has invoked the secretary of state's power to deport someone for foreign-policy reasons—including a description of each case's facts and a copy of the official determination. https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreicvnpbedg3uxucpcxt2h6x6hc3pbung3s63cauqbpgnxx7f654kka
NEW: After a week of relative silence on the Abrego Garcia docket, both sides ask Judge Xinis for a conference to discuss how expedited discovery is going. https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreiaieagnfdqdwzks6sc3lye47vbfx6bvtruydwcaqjcnqp555r7amy
WKCR's reporting on pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia and Barnard has been exemplary, and it's upsetting to hear that Barnard has been threatening rather than praising these extremely professional student reporters [A Student Journalist Covered a...]( )
NEW: Mahmoud Khalil’s claim that his targeting for deportation by Marco Rubio is unconstitutional CAN be heard in NJ federal court, Judge Farbiarz finds. [storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...](📄.pdf ) https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreidt4eooellqvple355gctgtcce5rp4hhtyfpjfhflhibfypcgqmbq