Source: New York Post
A New Jersey-based federal judge rejected the Trump administration’s bid to move Columbia grad and anti-Israel demonstration leader Mahmoud Khalil’s legal case to Louisiana — where he is locked up in an ICE detention center. US District Judge Michael Farbiarz ruled Tuesday that the Garden State will maintain jurisdiction over the high-profile deportation case since it’s where Khalil was briefly detained when his lawyers filed their legal challenge following his contested arrest. “The case as filed can go forward only here,” Farbiarz wrote in his 67-page ruling, where he described the government’s argument otherwise as “unpersuasive.
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