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Mahmoud Khalil takes legal fight to Supreme Court

Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University demonstrator who became a flash point in the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian foreign college students, asked the Supreme Court on Monday to take up his case, his lawyers said. Khalil was jailed for months last year, and he has long asserted his detention was retaliation for his protected speech.…

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