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Margo Schlanger is the Wade H. and Dores M. McCree Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and the former head of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
Frank Trinity is the chief legal officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges. The AAMC filed an amicus brief opposing the government’s stay applications in Trump v. IRAP and Trump v. Hawaii.
Lee Rudofsky is the solicitor general of Arkansas. Arkansas, through its Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, submitted an amicus brief in support of the federal government in these cases. We are all familiar with the old adage that hard cases make bad law.
Christopher J. Hajec is the director of litigation for the Immigration Reform Law Institute. He filed an amicus brief in support of the government’s cert petition in Trump v. IRAP.
Josh Blackman is a constitutional law professor at the South Texas College of Law Houston, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and the author of “Unraveled: Obamacare, Religious Liberty, and Executive Power.” In Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project, the Supreme Court stayed, in part, the judgments of the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 4th and 9th Circuits.
Steve Vladeck is a professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law.
Leah Litman is an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. She signed an amicus brief that opposed the government’s stay applications to the Supreme Court.
John G. Malcolm is the Vice President of the Institute for Constitutional Government at The Heritage Foundation. On the last day of its term, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project shortly after it reconvenes on Oct. 2, 2017.
In December 2015, the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald Trump issued a statement calling for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what’s going on.” Trump’s statement continued: “Until we are able to