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Mahmoud Khalil Just Sued the Heritage Foundation and Six Trump Officials
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Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University protester who became the face of Trump's campus crackdown, filed a 140 page lawsuit in Manhattan federal court accusing the Heritage Foundation, several top administration officials, and pro-Israel groups of colluding to suppress his constitutional rights. Hawk, a longtime trial attorney, reads through the complaint and the New York Times reporting on it.
The defendants include the Heritage Foundation and its employees Victoria Coates and Robert Greenway, Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Markwayne Mullin, Todd Blanche, Kristi Noem, plus Betar and Canary Mission. Khalil's theory traces a line from the Heritage plan known as Project Esther, written after October 7th, to the targeting of activists by those groups, to his own arrest and months in detention during which he missed the birth of his first child. He is a green card holder married to a US citizen.
Hawk walks through the evidence the complaint cites, largely the defendants' own public posts, and notes a federal judge's prior finding in the case. He covers the 1871 anti-Klan statute the suit is built on, Steve Vladeck's caution about whether the conspiracy theory will hold, a Hannity interview with Miller, and what happens procedurally next.
#MahmoudKhalil #StephenMiller #MarcoRubio #HeritageFoundation #ProjectEsther #CanaryMission #Betar #VictoriaCoates #RobertGreenway #KristiNoem #ToddBlanche #Columbia #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #Lawsuit #Deportation #Palestine #Gaza #Politics #Hawk
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