Maura Healey Is Suing the President Again

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Maura Healey isn’t messing around. Sounding the alarm about the impact of Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration and describing it as Islamophobia run amok, the Massachusetts attorney general announced today that her office is challenging the move in court.

Healey announced Tuesday that the state is joining a lawsuit taking on the legality of the order, which suspended the country’s refugee program and temporarily banned people from seven Muslim-majority nations from traveling to the U.S. The ban initially included those who already had lived and worked in the country legally. The suit was filed by the ACLU on behalf of two Iranian UMass Dartmouth professors who were detained for hours on Saturday night, despite having authorization to live and work here.

The move came with a sharply worded news release and press conference, and it’s clear she’s trying to send a message to the White House:

Harm to our institutions, our citizens, and our businesses is harm to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The President’s executive order is a threat to our Constitution. Rather than protecting our national security, it stigmatizes those who would lawfully emigrate to our state. With this policy, our global universities, hospitals, businesses and start-ups, and far too many students and residents have been put at risk. On behalf of the Commonwealth, my office is challenging the immigration ban to hold this administration accountable for its un-American, discriminatory, and reckless decision-making.

Read More: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2017/01/31/maura-healey-suing-president-trump/

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OMG! Gov Charlie Baker -R supports this! This is great.

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1. Women seem to be at the forefront of this fight for justice.

Maura Healey. Sally Yates. Elizabeth Warren. Ann Donnelly.

And all those pink pussyhats.

Thank god for those with the ovaries and courage to lead the way.

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2. I am proud to say

that I voted for both Maura Healey and Elizabeth Warren.

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3. but you just cant trust women

to fall in line w authoritarians. damn them.

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4. Maura Healy is a rock star

and an inspiration.

But can't say much of anything about
that lump of nothing Charlie Baker.

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6. Ha!

Yup, not much to say about Charlie. Perhaps be should take a ride on the MTA and never return.

Maura however is a keeper.

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5. Meanwhile, the NRA is suing her and Governor Charlie Baker...what fun!

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/23/mass-chapter-nra-targets-state-assault-weapons-ban-federal-lawsuit-against-healey/IX7YTBuknWbWxM7BFDJ8LO/story.html

The Massachusetts affiliate of the National Rifle Association on Monday sued Governor Charlie Baker and Attorney General Maura Healey, contending the state’s ban on assault weapons is unlawful and should be declared “void and unenforceable.”