"I am grateful to the court for honoring the rule of law and holding the line against the government's attempts to trample on due process, Mahdawi, who is a permanent US resident, or green card holder, said in a statement. He continued: This decision is an important step towards upholding what fear tried to destroy: the right to speak for peace and justice."
"The judge, Nina Froes, had ruled last Friday that the evidence that the Trump administration had submitted to the court was not admissible, due to an inability to meet its burden of proving removability. According to the judge's order, the government failed to properly authenticate a memorandum purported to be signed by US secretary of state Marco Rubio."
Mohsen Mahdawi, a 34-year-old Columbia student and permanent US resident, was arrested last year during a citizenship interview and faced deportation. An immigration judge, Nina Froes, ruled that the evidence submitted by the Trump administration was not admissible because it failed to meet the burden of proving removability and did not properly authenticate a memorandum purportedly signed by US secretary of state Marco Rubio. Lawyers filed details with a federal appeals court in New York after a prior ruling led to Mahdawi's release in April. Civil liberties lawyers emphasized the importance of federal court review when First Amendment and constitutional violations are alleged.
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