Opinion Granting Bail to Rumeysa Ozturk (Author of Op-Ed Urging Boycott of Israel)

Judge William Sessions in Ozturk v. Trump ( D. Vt.), providing the written explanation for a May 9 order granting bail, provides the written written explanation.

Sessions: The government has identified her op-ed, and potentially related associations, as the precipitating factor for her visa revocation.

He says the government has argued that such detention is completely at the discretion of the government.

A year after Ms. Ozturk co-authored an op-ed in a campus newspaper, the government revoked her visa, arrested her and detained her.

The court concluded that "extraordinary circumstances" supported bail (the standard required by Mapp v. Reno ( 2d Cir. 2001 ) The government has not claimed that Ms Ozturki violated any civil or criminal laws requiring her removal from the country.