Columbia Activist Slams Transfer Bid As Venue Shopping

By Carla Baranauckas ( March 28, 2025, 8:16 PM EDT) -- Counsel for the Columbia University student activist facing deportation for his part in pro-Palestinian campus protests urged a New Jersey federal judge on Friday to reject the government's bid to send the case to Louisiana, where he is in detention, saying prosecutors are venue shopping while they chill his speech....

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