Comment on Power & Pushback: Court to hear arguments in Mohsen Mahdawi and Rümeysa Öztürk lawsuits by Hostage

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The court will consider whether non-citizens can ask a federal district court to intervene if they’re being detained unconstitutionally. ICE agents had planned to ambush Mahdawi and send him to the same Louisiana detention facility where Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk. However, a judge blocked the Trump administration from transferring Mahdawi out of Vermont before he could be transported. Two weeks later, a judge ordered his immediate release. She was detained for 6 weeks before a judge ordered her release.