Monday, March 6, 2017

Retro Report: For Yale Law Group Fighting Trump’s Travel Ban, Echoes of 1991

Retro Report

By CLYDE HABERMAN

With President Trump recasting his executive order banning the entry of migrants from certain predominantly Muslim countries, it may be a moment to recall Dick the Butcher. Reaction to the new restrictions seems destined to reprise that to Mr. Trump’s original order in January, and it echoes the Butcher’s oft-quoted line from Shakespeare’s “Henry VI, Part 2.” There is a crucial one-word change, though. This version goes: “The first thing we do, let’s call all the lawyers.”

That’s what opponents of the travel ban did in January. In short order, legal teams formed to



source http://www.omnipopmag.com/2017/03/07/retro-report-for-yale-law-group-fighting-trumps-travel-ban-echoes-of-1991/

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