Attorneys mobilize for legal challenges to Trump policies. The New York Times (1/30, Savage, Subscription
Publication, 13.9M) reports that “the calls and emails went out a little past
10 p.m. Friday, rippling through an informal network of current and former Yale
Law School students who had worked at the school’s immigrant rights advocacy
clinic.” The news “told of an Iraqi man being detained at Kennedy International
Airport because of President Trump’s travel ban, putting him at imminent risk
of deportation.” According to the Times, “around three dozen lawyers and law
students across the country” worked through the night and “slammed together a
legal complaint asking a federal judge to free the man” and “to certify their
lawsuit as a class action on behalf of others in a similar situation.” They
filed their lawsuit around 5:30 am “on the electronic docket system for the
Eastern District of New York,” and thus “began the opening salvos of the legal
pushback to Mr. Trump’s executive order banning entry to refugees and others
from seven predominantly Muslim countries.”
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