Why was the Columbia (NY) student's case ruled on in Louisianna?

[edhopper]

Is this just a matter of picking a Judge they know will rule for them?

[SheltieLover]

1. I've been wondering this too!

[regnaD kciN]

8. I recall earlier court action determining that the case had to be heard in NJ...

...then, all of a sudden, we hear it's been decided in Louisiana.

[SheltieLover]

10. That's what I thought as well!

[Ocelot II]

2. That's where he was in physical custody.

[allegorical oracle]

4. Thought that too, but searched this out:

Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, who has since been moved to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Basile, Louisiana, provided an updated account of what happened to her as she walked along a street on March 25, in a document filed by her lawyers in federal court Thursday.

Why Louisiana?

[Ocelot II]

5. I suppose it's one of the more fascist jurisdictions in the US.

[allegorical oracle]

7. The answer...(wikipedia)

Basile is also the location of the privately operated South Louisiana ICE Processing Center, which has been exclusively used as an ICE Processing Center since April 2019.[7][8]

[Ocelot II]

9. That explains it, thanks.

But the federal court in NJ still has jurisdiction, and the matter isn't over.

The ruling is far from the final word on whether Mr. Khalil, a Columbia University graduate and legal permanent resident, will be deported. His lawyers will continue their fight in Louisiana and New Jersey, arguing that he has been targeted for constitutionally protected speech.

The constitutional issues at the heart of the case will most likely get a fuller hearing in federal court in New Jersey than they did in Louisiana on Friday. For the time being, the decision by the judge there, Jamee E. Comans, affirmed the extraordinary power that the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has asserted to target any noncitizen for deportation.
. . . .
Mr. Khalil’s immigration case now moves on to what is known as the “relief stage,” in which his lawyers will be able to argue for his right to stay in the country. If they lose, they can appeal, first to an immigration board and then to a federal court.

But the free speech and due process issues that loom over the case may first be scrutinized in federal court in New Jersey, where Mr. Khalil’s lawyers are also fighting for his release. The judge overseeing that case in Newark, Michael Farbiarz, has ordered the government not to remove Mr. Khalil from the country.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/nyregion/khalil-jena-deportation-ruling.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-04.i_KZ.p5JA8ZQywEeu&smid=url-share

[allegorical oracle]

11. Trump (2019) set that site up. The POS has been plotting this carp

since his first term. Maybe that's why he is so pissed about losing in 2020. It interrupted his plans.

[allegorical oracle]

12. Operative word in my response was privately operated. So, who is operating

this processing center? It isn't the gubmint.

[dweller]

3. The judge

is an immigration judge appointed by the Pisswig , after he had purged any immigration judges he didn’t like and appointed ones he did

😐

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100220230120


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[Easterncedar]

6. A school closed for abuse was turned into an ICE facility

Grrrrr

[Demovictory9]

13. Louisiana has become for ICE what Delaware is to credit cards

big ICE facility and judges that rule anti immigrant in higher rates than other states.