Mahdawi v. Trump (detention appeal, CA)

Judge Crawford's release order rests on the heightened due process protection owed to LPRs, finding that the government's national security grounds did not establish the individualized determinations of dangerousness or flight risk required for detention. The application turns on the specific facts: Mahdawi's detention appears to rest on his political speech and protest activity at Columbia, without documented particularized findings supporting the security classification. On appeal, the Second Circuit must determine whether the government's national security designation can overcome an LPR's constitutional protections absent individualized proof, or whether Crawford correctly required the latter before detention could be sustained.