The family of Boulder, Colorado, firebomb attacker Mohamed Sabry Soliman had received a U.S. District Court ruling that successfully blocked their expedited removal from the country. Now, another U.S. District Court judge has ruled that he does not have jurisdictional authority to hear their case.
US District Court Judge Orlando Garcia dismissed Mohamed Sabry Soliman family’s legal challenge to their deportation — stating that the Trump administration has conducted normal and legal removal proceedings.
Soliman’s wife and five children had sued to prevent expedited removal proceedings, but the judge ruled he “lacks jurisdiction to grant Petitioners the relief they seek.”
Garcia’s decision superseded another court’s ruling last month, when Biden-appointed US District Court Judge Gordon Gallagher slammed the brakes on the Trump administration’s attempt to deport Soliman’s family.
Soliman, 45, and his family moved to the US from Egypt in 2022 but both his work authorization and tourist visas have expired.
As our legal eagle and Deputy Managing Editor Susie Moore pointed out on Wednesday:
Remember all the hubbub when a Colorado judge (Gordon Gallagher) initially granted the family of Boulder firebomber Mohamed Soliman a temporary restraining order against their removal from the country? Well, that case subsequently got transferred to Texas, and, after initially extending the TRO to sort out the situation, Judge Orlando Garcia has now dismissed their case for lack of jurisdiction. (Essentially, he's saying this needs to be/is being handled by the immigration court/proceedings.)
With the SCOTUS ruling on sweeping injunctions against the Trump administration as a backdrop on the scope of judicial authority, Judge Garcia rightly acknowledged that this was not a decision within his purview. Judge Garcia ruled that the jurisdiction where such a challenge could be assessed properly is the Immigration Court. So, the fate of Soliman's wife and children will fall into their hands.
On June 1, Egyptian illegal immigrant Mohamed Sabry Soliman threw Molotov cocktails and used a makeshift flamethrower to attack a peaceful crowd participating in “Run for Their Lives” to support Israeli hostages captured by the Hamas terror group. Soliman's family had been in the country illegally since 2022, when they overstayed their visas. Soliman injured 15 people, eight critically. Soliman's wife, Hayal El Gamal, and five children, aged 18, 15, 7, and two four-year-olds, were immediately detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and were being held at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, just 73 miles outside of San Antonio.
From a layman's standpoint, this should have been a no-brainer, but the justice system remains charged and infected with cowardice, overreach, and activism that too often supersedes the actual rule of law. So, we really never know which way the wind is going to blow. The choices made by the Idaho prosecution to offer a plea deal to Bryan Kohberger for the murder of four University of Idaho students, and the P. Diddy jury verdict are Exhibits B and C of this, with all the Trump federal judge madness as Exhibit A.
As our editor Bob Hoge reported on Monday, along with the 16 counts Soliman already faces, after the death of 82-year-old Karen Diamond, who was critically injured in the June 1 attack, Soliman has now tacked on two first-degree murder charges. So, this will most likely be factored into whatever decision-making occurs in regard to his family's deportation status.
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