Maura Healey Is Suing the President Again [View all]

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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.