The government’s justification in court filings for moving the former Columbia graduate student from Manhattan to a jail in rural Louisiana raises some questions.
Government lawyers defending the effort to deport Khalil told a judge he lacked jurisdiction to stop it because Khalil was flown to Louisiana within hours of being taken into custody.
Holden has endorsed two members of his staff to succeed him—one Democrat and one Republican. Also running: a teachers union strategist, a priest, and an anti-vaxxer known as the "Sperminator."
Spirits were high at a one-day strike protesting the closure of the Seventh Avenue Starbucks, despite seven arrests and a bleak forecast for the national labor movement.