ruling<\/a> split the Third Circuit, with six judges voting to approve Khalil\u2019s request and five judges voting to deny it. The dissenting judges contended that the court\u2019s decision could threaten the constitutional rights of Khalil and other noncitizens.<\/p>\n\u201cThe Judiciary \u2018serves as an inseparable element of the constitutional system of checks and balances\u2019 protecting civil liberties and checking legislative and executive discretion,\u201d Judge Cheryl Ann Krause wrote in her dissenting opinion. \u201cWe cannot fulfill that role if we write ourselves out of relevance and leave the Executive Branch to check itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Khalil, an Algerian citizen and lawful permanent resident of the United States, was arrested in March 2025 after Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed his presence would have “serious adverse foreign policy consequences” for the United States Khalil had been a vocal critic of Israel’s military operations in Gaza, calling them “a genocide,” and helped organize pro-Palestinian events as president of Columbia’s Palestinian Student Society.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope the Supreme Court will recognize how dangerous the Third Circuit\u2019s decision was, not just for Mahmoud but for other non-citizens the administration has its vengeful sights upon,\u201d Baher Azmy, one of Khalil\u2019s attorneys and legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, said in a statement . \u201cThat ruling greenlights holding someone in prolonged, brutal detention conditions without access to meaningful judicial review in order to punish them and deter others from dissenting from U.S. foreign policy.<\/p>\n
The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been a vocal supporter of Khalil, calling<\/a> his arrest \u201ca chilling act of political repression\u201d and \u201can attack on all of our constitutional rights.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal judges on Friday declined to review an appeal filed by Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia graduate who was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-662150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}