EXTRA: Mahmoud Khalil Files Habeas Corpus in SDNY versus Noem and Bondi Asks for Release

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by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, March 10 – After Mahmoud Khalil was sent to the ICE detention facility in Elizabeth, NJ - and then it seems to Louisiana - his lawyer filed a habeas corpus petition in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. It was not viewable on PACER but it was, at terminals in the courthouse itself. On Bluesky here, Threads here (fwiw X was down).

The first claim for relief was for "relief pending adjudication pursuant to Mapp v. Reno.

Then: "Declare that Respondents' actions to detain M.K. violate the First Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment; enjoin Respondents from transferring the Petitioner from the jurisdiction of this District pending these proceedings;

order the release of Petitioner under reasonable conditions of supervision" - but where is he?

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