{"id":84884,"date":"2017-09-24T13:28:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T17:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=84884"},"modified":"2017-09-24T11:51:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T15:51:24","slug":"schneiderman-leads-new-scotus-brief-in-travel-ban-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=84884","title":{"rendered":"Schneiderman leads new SCOTUS brief in Travel Ban case"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"18 attorneys general file Amicus brief opposing the ban, citing harm to states\u2019 residents, institutions, and economies<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, leading a coalition of 18 Attorneys General, filed a new amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court opposing President Trump\u2019s travel ban.<\/p>\n

The brief was filed in related cases\u00a0Trump v. IRAP\u00a0(No. 16-1436) and\u00a0Trump v. Hawaii\u00a0(No. 16-1540), ahead of arguments scheduled for October 10th. In both cases, the district courts entered nationwide preliminary injunctions prohibiting among other things enforcement of President Trump\u2019s 90-day ban on the entry to the U.S. of nationals from six overwhelmingly Muslim countries, the suspension of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, and the reduction of the Program\u2019s refugee cap. Both the Fourth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit affirmed the injunctions.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince January, our coalition of attorneys general has been on the front lines of the fight against this unconstitutional, unlawful, and un-American ban,\u201d said Schneiderman. \u201cPresident Trump\u2019s discriminatory ban doesn\u2019t just harm the families caught up in the chaos of his draconian policies. It also undermines our states\u2019 residents, institutions, businesses, and economies \u2013 and we\u2019ll continue to take action to ensure that those we represent are protected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Click here to read the brief<\/a>, which was led by Attorney General Schneiderman and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, and signed by New York, Illinois, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmici have a strong interest in respondents\u2019 challenges to the Order, and to its travel ban in particular, which has already caused \u2013 and absent the continuation of the injunctions, will continue to cause \u2013 substantial harm to our universities, hospitals, businesses, communities, and residents,\u201d<\/em> the brief reads.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the amici States differ in many ways, all welcome and benefit from immigration, tourism, and international travel by students, academics, skilled professionals, and businesspeople. Notwithstanding the injunctions now in place, the travel ban has inflicted economic damage on the States themselves through lost tuition and increased administrative costs at the States\u2019 public universities and colleges, as well as diminished tax revenues. The ban has also disrupted the provision of medical care at the States\u2019 hospitals and harmed our science, technology, healthcare, finance, and tourism industries by inhibiting the free exchange of information, ideas, and talent between the six designated countries and the amici States. In addition, the ban has hindered the States from effectuating our own constitutional and statutory policies of religious tolerance and non-discrimination.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The amicus brief was handled for New York by Solicitor General Barbara Underwood, Deputy Solicitor General Anisha Dasgupta, and Assistant Solicitor General Zainab Chaudhry.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

18 attorneys general file Amicus brief opposing the ban, citing harm to states\u2019 residents, institutions, and economies New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, leading a coalition of 18 Attorneys General, filed a new amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court opposing President Trump\u2019s travel ban. The brief was filed in related cases\u00a0Trump v. IRAP\u00a0(No. 16-1436) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}