Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Arrested Again, Appeals Court Rules

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Originally published at: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Arrested Again, Appeals Court Rules - TPM – Talking Points Memo

A 2-1 conservative majority on a federal appeals panel on Thursday reversed a ruling that had blocked federal officers from arresting Mahmoud Khalil, handing the Trump administration a win in its effort to crack down on and in some cases remove pro-Palestinian voices from the country. The ruling is unlikely to take immediate effect, as…

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And he will be, as soon as they find him.

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They’ll just set up another court session and when he shows up, ICE will drag him away and ship him off to another state without telling his lawyers… :enraged_face:

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Conservative so called judges trying yet again to Calvinball from the bench, and being really fucken dumb about it.

In no world should we let an unconstitutional act, let alone a whole system, continue without redress or accountability after discovery. Period. End of discussion.

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Very much doubt the en banc court will uphold this decision. But as always, the ugly shadow of SCOTUS looms behind them….

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I hope that you are correct.

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I think that every legal argument documenting & opposing this reign of terror is useful. We will need it in the future. Also, we need to know we are not alone.

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And we need to know who we’re fighting against…

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stay within the immigration court system before exhausting his options there.

So, if a president, in his or her unequaled brilliance (or infallible corruption), determines that Jesus conspired with Palestinians, wouldn’t the president then have a duty to round up all Christians?

And what would be wrong then with a president making a few billion charging admission to maulings at the Trump Coliseum?

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In a dissent, Freeman said that Khalil’s claim that his Constitutional rights had been violated was enough to allow immediate intervention by a federal district court without first having to go through the entire immigration court process.

I kinda thought that intervening when Constitutional rights are being violated is what Federal courts are for.

Silly me.

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