Sparks: Mahmoud Khalil’s attorneys to turn to US supreme court after ruling paves way for deportation

The state's morality of order is simply its will to power, dressed in the respectable robes of the law to conceal the raw desire to expel the unfamiliar.

Consider that the judges who decide this case, the petitioner who pleads it, and the public that debates it will soon be dust and forgotten.

Democratic majorities, loving equality among themselves, often display a peculiar tyranny in defining who shall be granted the privilege of that equality.

When a government can strip a man of his place by appealing to the letter of a law written without his consent, it mocks the very rights it claims to protect.

Why do millions consent to the machinery that removes one, when the simple refusal to turn the key would halt the entire engine?

Observe how the legal mechanism, like a water screw, is designed for a single directional motion - to lift a ruling upward while pressing a person out.

A system that denies fundamental appeal educates citizens in passive obedience, training them to accept arbitrary power as a natural force.

The attorneys prepare their papers with a meticulous, quiet despair, the sort that precedes a long journey whose destination is already known to everyone in the room.

Before tearing down the last gate of appeal, one should first understand why our ancestors, in their wild wisdom, decided to build so many.

In Delhi, the Sultan's *farman* could be appealed; in the Maldives, the judge's decree was final; here, I observe another variation on the theme of finality.

It is a most efficient and logical system, where we first construct a labyrinth of laws and then commend ourselves for finding the sole exit that points over a border.