A federal judge on Wednesday denied the Trump administration's request to dismiss Columbia University alumnus Mahmoud Khalil's challenge to his arrest by immigration authorities and agreed his case should be moved to New Jersey.
District Judge Jesse Furman agreed with the government in part of his order, saying that Khalil's case should not be heard in the Southern District of New York.
But he sided with Khalil in saying the case should be moved to New Jersey, not dismissed or transferred to Louisiana as the government sought to do.
He kept his order in place barring the government from removing Khalil.
Furman said it will be up to the New Jersey court to consider Khalil's petition and various motions, such as his request to move from a detention facility in Louisiana to one in New York — or "perhaps now New Jersey."
"These are serious allegations and arguments that, no doubt, warrant careful review by a court of law; the fundamental constitutional principle that all persons in the United States are entitled to due process of law demands no less," his order read.
If Khalil's case had remained in Louisiana, it could have landed before one of the most conservative appeals courts in the country.
Posted by John3262005
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Regardless of your thoughts on him and this case, you should be against “judge shopping” which is a deeply cynical practice
And lol at the claiming “bed bugs infestation” to why they conveniently moved him so far to a deep red state (there are plenty of blue states much closer to New York than Louisiana is); that’s a funny way of saying “we want a right wing pro Trump judge”