Mahmoud Khalil

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superrific said:
Ever heard of Sacco and Vanzetti?
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Before Dershowitz went off the deep end with a severe case of TDS, he published a good book (based on his Harvard class) entitled Trials of the Century. There is a chapter on the Sacco and Vanzetti trial that was very interesting.

Anyway, to bring it back to the thread topic, it seems that Sacco and Vanzetti faced the same anti-Italian/anti-immigrant attitudes in 1920s Massachusetts as Khalil faces with the ZenModes of today.
 
donbosco said:
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In my #WestHarlem neighborhood two days ago.

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Today.
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That has to be a record for New York in terms of cleaning off graffiti.

That whole little wall looks a lot cleaner…….if it is cleaner, kudos to the worker(s) for cleaning more of the wall than just the “Free Mahmoud” part.

Now the graffiti artist has a cleaner place to rewrite “Free Mahmoud.”
 
I swear to God, if those motherfuckers on the Supreme Court decide that the AEA overrides the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment . . .

And the courts have to be able to pierce the "reasonable grounds" and "compelling interests" bullshit. Those terms are construable. Courts all the time address those concepts. Unfortunately, I have a bad feeling that this Supreme Court would just roll over. Separation of powers above all; checks and balances matters none.
 
Zoo_View said:
That has to be a record for New York in terms of cleaning off graffiti.

That whole little wall looks a lot cleaner…….if it is cleaner, kudos to the worker(s) for cleaning more of the wall than just the “Free Mahmoud” part.

Now the graffiti artist has a cleaner place to rewrite “Free Mahmoud.”
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I’m inclined to believe that it happened too quickly for the city - more likely private citizen. I’ve noticed sidewalk chalk erased as well on occasion - always relatively progressive messages - unless they’re in Spanish - then they are left alone. I’m talking about an approximately 4 square block area (where I walk my dogs).
 
Case will hopefully work its way quickly up the appellate ladder. Then we'll see what the Supremes say.
 
superrific said:
I swear to God, if those motherfuckers on the Supreme Court decide that the AEA overrides the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment . . .

And the courts have to be able to pierce the "reasonable grounds" and "compelling interests" bullshit. Those terms are construable. Courts all the time address those concepts. Unfortunately, I have a bad feeling that this Supreme Court would just roll over. Separation of powers above all; checks and balances matters none.
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Is that precisely the purpose of the AEA? Isn't that why the power was given to the President?
 
RaiGuy said:
It just shows how much of an influence Israel has over our politicians.
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I don't think this is about Israel at all, any more than the disgraceful "anti-Semitism" hearings were about Israel.

This is about the administration grasping at unpopular figures in order to expand its power.

Courts need to put a stop to it.
 
superrific said:
Isn't what? Overruling the constitution? You might need a refresher course in civics.
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Yes. Isn't that why the AEA and AFA were put into place? It's meant to be a method for removing non-citizens who were viewed a dangerous, right?
 
rodoheel said:
Case will hopefully work its way quickly up the appellate ladder. Then we'll see what the Supremes say.
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Well, it's a shitshow, right? There's still the case in NJ. I don't know if that's supposed to be stayed until after the immigration process is complete. I would assume so, but there are so many different issues being argued it's hard to know what to believe.

If I was the lawyer, I would ask the judge to allow Khalil to be bonded out, given the lack of any real evidence against him. There's a term for that in immigration law (I think it's different from paroled, although maybe not) that I don't remember. It should be given. Release him because of unlawful process.
 
ZenMode said:
Yes. Isn't that why the AEA and AFA were put into place? It's meant to be a method for removing non-citizens who were viewed a dangerous, right?
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Preventing against the AEA was why the Bill of Rights was put into place. No statute can override the Bill of Rights.
 
From a PR perspective, Khalil has been an easy target for the Administration to use — a lot of Americans were upset or appalled by the campus protests against Israel’s prosecution of the war in Gaza and Khalil was a leader in a lot of media clips.

OTOH, the ideas and behavior the same Administration pardoned was worse, though that seems to have been absorbed and immediately memory-holed.

 
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