Court won’t revisit ruling, opening door to pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil’s rearrest

WASHIN GTON: A divided federal appeals court on Friday declined to reconsider a ruling in Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil’s case that opened the door to President Donald Trump’s administration re-arresting and deporting the pro-Palestinian activist. The 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals on a 6-5 vote rejected 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.