ACLU Will Sue Over New Trump Travel Ban

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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/aclu-will-sue-over-new-trump-travel-ban-w470564

ACLU Will Sue Over New Trump Travel Ban

Trump's new order doesn't "eliminate the constitutional problems" with the original ban, says the ACLU's Lee Gelernt
By Tessa Stuart
50 minutes ago


Donald Trump signed a revised version of his infamous travel ban Monday morning. The new executive order excludes one country from the original ban – Iraq, which the administration says has implemented new vetting measures since the first order was written – and exempts legal green card holders, among other tweaks.

The changes come after multiple courts declared the original executive order unconstitutional. But according to Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, despite the changes rolled out Monday, the new order is just as unconstitutional.

"We believe the new order continues to be based on religious discrimination," Gelernt tells Rolling Stone. "That was the core problem with the first executive order and remains a serious problem with this executive order."

The ban was "narrowed in light of the court decisions, but it wasn't narrowed sufficiently to eliminate the constitutional problems," Gelernt says. The new changes don't go into effect until March 16th, but the ACLU will be in court before then to try to keep the current injunctions in place.

One of the most glaring legal issues with the original order – the likely reason former acting Attorney General Sally Yates said the Department of Justice would not defend it in court – was that both the president and his advisers made public statements implying the ban was religiously motivated.

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Gelernt says the reports dovetail with affidavits the ACLU and its co-plaintiffs submitted on behalf of high-ranking national security experts and diplomats from both Democratic and Republican administrations who said the ban would be counterproductive to anti-terrorism efforts. The leaked reports only reinforce their points, Gelernt says.

"The administration's own experts are now saying that a ban is not the proper way to further our national security," he says, "and I think we will see that DHS report in court cases."

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