Appeals court pauses Tufts student's transfer to Vermont in immigration detention case
Source: AP
Updated 10:39 AM EDT, April 29, 2025
A federal appeals court has paused a judges order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England this week so it can consider an emergency motion filed by the government.
The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New York, ruled Monday that a three-judge panel would hear arguments on May 6 in the case of Rumeysa Ozturk. Shes been detained for five weeks as of Tuesday.
A district court judge in Vermont had earlier ordered that the 30-year-old doctoral student be brought to the state by Thursday for hearings to determine whether she was illegally detained. Ozturks lawyers say her detention violates her constitutional rights, including free speech and due process.
The U.S. Justice Department, which is appealing that ruling, said that an immigration court in Louisiana has jurisdiction over her case.
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bluestarone
(19,707 posts)STALLING justice.
onenote
(45,179 posts)The order granting an administrative stay was issued by Alison Nathan. Nathan was first appointed to the US District Court for the Southern DIstrict of New York by President Obama, for whom she previously had served as associate White House Counsel. She served on the District Court for over ten years before President Biden nominated her to fill a vacancy on the Second Circuit in November 2021. Republicans held up her confirmation, but after Biden renominated her in January 2022, she finally was confirmed on essentially a party-line vote in March 2022.
If she had outright denied the administration's stay request, they probably could and would have taken that decision to the Supreme Court. By referring the matter to a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit, she sets the stage -- hopefully -- for a strong, well reasoned decision denying the stay that would be harder for the Supreme Court to overturn.
bluestarone
(19,707 posts)STALLING. That's who they are. They know how to fill all court rooms.
riversedge
(75,288 posts)does something--which as her lawyer says--it could be a LONG time!!
And, the DHS did this without providing evidence.
.............Ozturks lawyers opposed the emergency motion. In practice, that temporary pause could last many months, they said in a news release.
.............Ozturk was one of four students who wrote an op-ed in the campus newspaper, The Tufts Daily, last year criticizing the universitys response to student activists demanding that Tufts acknowledge the Palestinian genocide, disclose its investments and divest from companies with ties to Israel.
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in March, without providing evidence, that investigations found that Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist group.......................