Pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil asks for Supreme Court review of his deportation case
His lawyers say the ruling could let immigration authorities re-arrest him and seek deportation while his Supreme Court appeal proceeds.
- On Friday, lawyers for activist Mahmoud Khalil vowed to ask the Supreme Court to review his deportation case after the Third Circuit Court of Appeals declined to reconsider a ruling that leaves him at risk of detention.
- Khalil, a former Columbia University student, was arrested in March 2025 during a Trump administration crackdown on campus protests; a Third Circuit panel later overturned a district court order that had secured his release.
- In a 6-5 vote, the Third Circuit rejected the rehearing request along ideological lines; Circuit Judge Cheryl Ann Krause, one of five Democratic appointees, stated the decision "handcuffed the judiciary's ability to protect the civil liberties of non-citizens."
- Khalil faces potential re-arrest and deportation to Algeria or Syria, as the Board of Immigration Appeals rejected his appeal in April, finalizing the removal order his legal team is fighting.
- Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, called the decision "dangerous," warning the ruling "greenlights holding someone in prolonged, brutal detention conditions without access to meaningful judicial review" to punish dissent.
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Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil wants Supreme Court to weigh in on deportation fight
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after a federal appeals court on Friday declined to reconsider a
Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil wants Supreme Court to weigh i
Former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after a federal appeals court on Friday declined to reconsider a decision that put the government a step closer to deporting him, the pro-Palestinian activist’s lawyers said. Judges on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia voted 6-5 against having the court’s full complement of judges review the ruling. In January, a three-judg…
Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyers vow to take deportation case to US Supreme Court
Lawyers for Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil vow to take his case to the US Supreme Court, after a divided federal appeals court declined to reconsider a ruling that opened the door to President Donald Trump’s administration re-arresting and deporting the anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activist.
Court won't revisit Mahmoud Khalil ruling, opening door to pro-Palestinian activist's rearrest
Khalil was among the most prominent of a number of foreign students detained last year by immigration authorities after engaging in pro-Palestinian activism on their college campuses.
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