The first count of the complaint filed today in the Eastern District of Virginia by CAIR lawyers challenging the EO is based on the Establishment Clause (the complaint also raises free exercise, equal protection, and APA arguments):
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3438649/Complaint-Sarsour-ED-Va.pdf In addition, the national legal director of the ACLU has indicated that they will be challenging the EO on Establishment Clause grounds, and he has previewed the argument here: https://www.justsecurity.org/36936/well-court-trumps-executive-order-refugees-violates-establishment-clause/ - Jim On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 7:11 AM, Hillel Y. Levin <hillelle...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is anyone aware of or involved in lawsuits that have been filed > challenging the distinction between Christian and Muslim > refugees/immigrants in Trump's EOs on Estab Clause grounds? > > -- > Hillel Y. Levin > Associate Professor > University of Georgia School of Law > Director, Georgia Law in Atlanta > 120 Herty Dr. > Athens, GA 30602 > (678) 641-7452 > hle...@uga.edu > hillelle...@gmail.com > SSRN Author Page: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id= > 466645 > > _______________________________________________ > To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see > http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw > > Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as > private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are > posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or > wrongly) forward the messages to others. >
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