I was doing my job even though it was unpopular,” said Michael Drescher, the former top federal prosecutor in the state for the last year.

Michael Drescher, who represented the government in civil cases brought by Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, answered heated ...

Michael Drescher, who sought to keep the high-profile immigrants detained, is now distancing himself from President Trump’s ...

Federal prosecutors are appealing a Vermont District Court judge’s order requiring the government to transfer Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk from Louisiana to Vermont. Court records show the ...

On Thursday, Judge William K. Sessions III denied the government’s Tuesday motion to appeal the court’s decision that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers must transfer Rümeysa Öztürk back to ...

A day after the judge’s ruling, Rümeysa Öztürk touched down at Boston Logan International Airport. She had been held in an immigration detention facility in Louisiana for six weeks. Tufts University ...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday grappled with the Trump administration’s efforts to deport two international students over their participation in pro-Palestinian campus activism. The challenges ...

Rümeysa Öztürk To Be Freed From Detention as Case Proceeds Rümeysa Öztürk To Be Freed From Detention as Case Proceeds May 07, 2025 Appeals Court Orders Trump Administration to Transfer Rümeysa Öztürk ...

Tufts PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk is back in Massachusetts after a federal judge in Vermont ordered her release earlier this month, ruling that she has a convincing claim that the government violated ...

A federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s decision to transfer Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to custody in Vermont. In an opinion ...

Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana on Friday, a few hours after a Vermont judge ordered that she be released. U.S. District ...