Against the wishes of the Department of Justice, the anti-Israel protester who was arrested and detained by immigration officials earlier this month, Mahmoud Khalil, will have his case transferred to New Jersey from Louisiana, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. 

A New York federal judge, Jesse Furman, explained in his order that although Mr. Khalil was arrested in New York, by the time that Mr. Khalil’s lawyer filed a habeas corpus petition challenging his detainment, her client had already arrived in New Jersey. Therefore, Judge Furman ruled, the New York court “lacks jurisdiction over most, if not all, of Khalil’s claims.”