The Fight Against the Travel Ban

The rollout of President Donald J. Trump’s initial travel ban on January 27, 2017 was by all accounts a disaster. Air passengers were told in flight they would not be allowed to enter the United States. Lawful permanent residents from the banned Muslim-majority nations—green card holders—heard the same. Refugees who had waited years to escape horrific circumstances in their own countries were immediately barred from entering the United States. That weekend, protesters flooded airports around the country, including Honolulu’s, 5,000 miles away from Washington, D.C. Lawyers offered whatever support they could to arriving passengers to show America still cared. But the lawyers assisting passengers at airports were not the only lawyers working that weekend. Within days of taking effect, President Trump’s first executive order was challenged in several federal courts, including in Hawaii. On February 3, 2017, a federal judge in the State of Washington…

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