POLITICO Nightly: The arrest that’s prompting a campus free speech reckoning
A WISE MAN IS CREDITED WITH SAYING: I MIGHT NOT AGREE WITH YOU, BUT WILL DEFEND TO THE DEATH YOUR RIGHT TO SAY IT! FREE SPEECH & THE RIGHT TO PROTEST IS INCLUDED IN THE CONSTITION THAT TRUMP WAS UNABLE TO READ IN PUBLIC! PROTESTING ISRAEL'S GENOCIDE IN NOT ANTI-SEMITISM! By Calder McHugh People gather outside of a New York court to protest the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil today. | Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images ‘COWARDICE INTO POLICY’ — A federal judge ruled today that Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University grad student arrested Saturday night by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials, would for now remain detained in Louisiana. Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist with a green card, had his deportation halted by Judge Jesse M. Furman, who ruled that he will remain in America until the court says otherwise. As he remains in limbo, Khalil has quickly become the avatar of a national debate over the rights of student protesters an...