Judge blocks Trump admin's bid to move Tufts student case to Louisiana; sends it Vermont

A national justice connected Friday denied a Trump medication petition to disregard oregon determination a lawsuit involving a Tufts University doctoral pupil from Turkey who has been detained by migration authorities, alternatively moving the proceedings to Vermont. 

Judge Denise Casper denied the government's petition to disregard the lawsuit against Rumeysa Öztürk or determination it to the Western District of Louisiana.

"Although the Petition raises superior issues arsenic to the behaviour of her apprehension and detention arsenic alleged successful each of these Counts, earlier reaching the merits of the Petition, the Court indispensable archetypal code the parties’ quality astir its jurisdiction," Casper's bid states. 

It continued: "The Court denies the government’s question to disregard this Petition oregon its petition to transportation this substance to the Western District of Louisiana and, relying upon the ‘interest of justice’… transfers this substance to the District of Vermont, wherever Ozturk was confined overnight astatine the clip that the Petition was filed."

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Rumeysa Öztürk was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aft her visa was revoked. (AP)

The proceeding was held successful Boston national tribunal to find if the habeas corpus petition connected behalf of Öztürk was filed successful the close jurisdiction. 

Öztürk was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) connected March 26 successful Somerville, Massachusetts, aft the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revoked her visa. 

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Rumeysa Öztürk, a 30-year-old doctoral pupil astatine Tufts University, was detained by Department of Homeland Security agents connected a thoroughfare successful Sommerville, Massachusetts, connected Tuesday, March 25. (AP)

A DHS spokesperson antecedently told Fox News Digital that she was "granted the privilege to beryllium successful this state connected a visa" and that "DHS and ICE investigations recovered Ozturk engaged successful activities successful enactment of Hamas, a overseas violent enactment that relishes the sidesplitting of Americans." 

In March 2024, Öztürk co-authored an op-ed successful the Tufts Daily, calling connected the assemblage to divest from Israel.

Öztürk's Massachusetts lawyer accused the Trump medication of "forum shopping," saying that ICE moved the pupil to Louisiana, wherever courts mightiness beryllium little favorable toward her case.

The U.S. Attorney's Office argued that national authorities moved Öztürk to Louisiana due to the fact that determination was nary disposable country successful Massachusetts to clasp her until trial. They said that she was archetypal sent to Vermont, but aboriginal moved to Louisiana.

Hundreds of radical gathered connected March 26 successful Somerville to request the merchandise of Rumeysa Öztürk, pursuing her apprehension by national agents.   (AP Photo/Michael Casey)

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