Monty
February 5, 2017, 2:35pm
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JBGUSA:
I happen not to agree with the substance of what they are doing. However, we have an adversarial system which under girds our country. Think Adams defending the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre.
Even though I think we should be holding off refugees, this is still lawyering at its best.
Okay. Why do you disagree with lawyers assisting people with ensuring said people are protected by the rule of law as opposed to being made a convenient scapegoat based on nothing other than prejudice against their religion and the fact the person doing said scapegoating has no business interest in their countries?
I wouldn’t put criminal & PI attys in the same class as immigration.
What I believe is an important scene that a future movie telling about the Trump presidency must include:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-legal-idUSKBN15K00R
ACLU lawyer Lee Gelernt said there was little time to talk strategy among the many states and advocacy groups opposing the order, as would normally happen. "It’s moving too quickly,” he said.
That sense of urgency was all too clear to Washington state lawyers on Monday as they feverishly gathered the required documents to file with the lawsuit, including the motion for a temporary restraining order.
Unlike other court papers filed electronically, a paper copy of that motion had to be delivered to the clerk’s office in person. So Noah Purcell, the solicitor general, led a race to the Seattle courthouse with others from the office just as the building was about to close. They pulled up to the courthouse, jumped out of the car and ran up the steps to the doors before they were locked. They arrived just in time.
And even if they did not know it, there are very good human reasons to do an extra effort like that:
An Iraqi child sent to the U.S. for treatment after suffering serious burns at a refugee camp has reportedly been separated from his family by President Trump’s executive order barring travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations.
One-year-old Dilbreen is due to undergo surgery this later this week, reports CBS Boston. His parents had obtained visas to travel to the U.S. to be with him, but were told the permits were suddenly revoked. Attorneys are now trying to help the family get a special waiver so they might arrive in time for their child’s operation, scheduled Feb. 5.
“So they are stranded in Iraq,” said Carrie Schuchardt, from the Massachusetts social-services organization House of Peace, where the family were supposed to be staying. “The child is here. The need for surgery is pressing.”
The boy had suffered severe burns last year when a heater exploded in the refugee camp his family were sheltering in. He was rushed by an aid group to Shriner’s Hospital in Boston for urgent treatment, accompanied by his father, according to the report.
On Tuesday, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey filed a lawsuit against the President challenging his immigration order, saying the ban was "harmful, discriminatory, and unconstitutional.”