by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, April 11 – Yunseo Chung filed on March 24 seeking a temporary restraining order against detention and removal. At 3 pm on March 25 U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Senior Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald held an emergency hearing. Inner City Press was there. From the thread:
All rise! Judge Buchwald: I'm prepared to sign the TRO, not preliminary injunction
Oestericher: Give me a moment... Why is point 3 needed?
Judge: No trips to Louisiana, as in that other case in this court [Mahmoud Khalil]
Oestericher: We'll file by April 11. I'm constrained to lightly object. Judge: Then they get two weeks, April 29. I have a non-jury trial starting then - so oral argument May 20 at 11 am.
On April 4 Chung's lawyer filed requesting all "materials underlying the warrant issued on March 13, 2025, authorizing federal law enforcement to search for and seize documents from Ms. Chung’s Columbia University-owned residence" - full request on Patreon here
On April 10 Chung's lawyer, attaching the memo filed in Louisiana immigration court on Mahmoud Khalil, but not the attachments to it, asked for discovery, including a deposition, presumably of an ICE or State Department official.
On April 11 the Administration moved to dismiss arguing "Congress has withdrawn district court jurisdiction over the challenges presented in this action... Petitioner’s claims also suffer from other defects that render them subject to dismissal. For one, Petitioner cannot invoke habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 because she is not “in custody.” Petitioner’s challenge to the Secretary of State’s foreign policy determination is a non-justiciable political question.
More on X for Subscribers here and Substack here
The case is Chung v. Trump, et al., 1:25-cv-2412 (Buchwald)
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