A federal judge has ruled that the legal battle over Mahmoud Khalil's deportation should continue to play out in New Jersey, rejecting the Trump administration's bid to transfer the Columbia University protester's case to Louisiana.

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The Trump Administration requested to transfer the case from the District of New Jersey to the Western District of Louisiana, where Khalil is currently held in immigration detention and where appeals would be heard in one of the nation's most conservative courts.

Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil is being held in an immigration detention facility in Louisiana more than a thousand miles away from where the 30-year-old was arrested in New York in early March. Here’s what to know about the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center, where he’s being detained while he fights to stay in the U.S.

After Columbia University decided to cooperate with Trump administration on weeding out anti-American protesters, Columbia University graduates tore up their degrees in protest.

A documentary, produced by Macklemore, about the 2024 Columbia University protests debuts in New York despite narrator Mahmoud Khalil's detainment by ICE officials.

Detained Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil remains in ICE custody despite his green card status. Khalil is appearing before a judge today. This comes as Secretary of State Marco Rubio says 300 student visas have been revoked.

The Department of Justice had moved to have a petition that claims Khalil's detention violates his Constitutional rights dismissed.

The opinion, unless appealed by the government, would clear the way for Judge Michael Fabiarz to decide the more substantive issues of Khalil's continued confinement.

Members of the Columbia University Apartheid Divest group, including Sueda Polat, second from left, and Mahmoud Khalil, center, are surrounded by members of the media outside the Columbia University campus, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)