{"id":10279,"date":"2025-06-13T23:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T23:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/judge-declines-to-release-mahmoud-khalil-after-government-shifts-to-other-charge-of-removability\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T23:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T23:23:13","slug":"judge-declines-to-release-mahmoud-khalil-after-government-shifts-to-other-charge-of-removability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/judge-declines-to-release-mahmoud-khalil-after-government-shifts-to-other-charge-of-removability\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge declines to release Mahmoud Khalil after government shifts to &#8216;other charge of removability&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge on Friday determined that Mahmoud Khalil, the pro-Palestinian activist from Columbia University, will remain in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention after the federal government pivoted its legal strategy. The Trump administration argued Friday it could detain Khalil, a green-card holder, under the justification he kept some of his prior work off his&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/education\/5349489-mahmoud-khalil-ice-detention-rubio-trump-columbia\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge on Friday determined that Mahmoud Khalil, the pro-Palestinian activist from Columbia University, will remain in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention after the federal government pivoted its legal strategy. The Trump administration argued Friday it could detain Khalil, a green-card holder, under the justification he kept some of his prior work off his&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}