Hello and welcome to Maine Justice.

It is Tuesday morning, March 11th.

I'm Andrew Wiseman, and I'm here with Mary McCord.

And Mary, I'm going to say hello, but I'm going to be like, no chit-chat.

We have to get right to business because there's so much to cover, including a story that broke

last night that we want to cover first and foremost. But let me just do what I used to do in the

U.S. Attorney's Office when people would come in all hot and bothered. And I'd start by going,

hello, how is your weekend to sort of calm it down? So, hi, Mary. How are you? I think that I have,

I can't tell you how many times in the last four hours that I've been up, I have said,

stop and take a deep breath. But then it doesn't work. A second later, I'm like,

well, there's too many things to talk about. How are we going to organize this? But you're right.

Many of us were tracking the arrest of a Palestinian student and lawful permanent resident of

Columbia University, a man named Mahmoud Khalil, who is now being detained pending deportation.

A lot of us heard about the rest on the weekend, but really didn't realize he had been not only

detained but transferred to a detention facility in Louisiana, and his lawyers have now filed

a petition for habeas corpus to release him. And we will talk about

a lot of the ramifications for this, because it's really potentially the beginning of something

that Donald Trump promised throughout his campaign and has been promising since he was elected,

that students who were involved in protests about the conditions in Gaza would lose their

student visas here. The difference here, of course, with Mr. Khalil is he's also a lawful

permanent resident. This is part of our theme for today, and I know it's part of the theme last week,

which is, and the week before, and the week before that, which is retribution. So we'll talk about this expanding retribution, not only against Mr. Khalil from Columbia, but against Columbia University itself, against Georgetown University and other universities, blacklisting law firms, targeting, again, more of the senior leadership at the

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