US appeals court says judge had no jurisdiction in release of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil

A US federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that a judge had no jurisdiction to order the release of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, Anadolu Agency reports. The Philadelphia-based Third US Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 ruling, found that federal immigration law stripped the trial court of authority to consider Khalil’s challenge to his detention and ordered the case dismissed. The ruling revived the possibility that Khalil could again be detained as the Trump administration pursues his deportation. Khalil, a lawful US resident and a former Columbia University graduate student, was detained in March without a warrant by immigration officers in New York City and transferred to a detention facility in Louisiana, where he was held for months. The […]