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US appeals court won’t revisit ruling allowing arrest of anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil
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Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian US activist Mahmoud Khalil carries a Palestinian flag during a rally celebrating his return from immigration detention, June 22, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)
A divided federal appeals court declines to reconsider a ruling in Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil’s case that opened the door to US President Donald Trump’s administration re-arresting and deporting the anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activist.
The 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals, on a 6-5 vote, rejects Khalil’s request to revisit a ruling a 2-1 panel of the Philadelphia-based court delivered in January that had concluded a lower-court judge had no jurisdiction to order his release from immigration detention last year.
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