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bigtree

(85,998 posts) Sat Jan 28, 2017, 10:15 PM Jan 2017

Broad and important (and temporary) nationwide stay of Trump's Muslim ban granted!

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Broad and important (and temporary) nationwide stay of Trump's Muslim ban granted! (Original Post) bigtree Jan 2017 OP

'The federal court for the Eastern District of New York has issued an emergency stay elleng Jan 2017 #1

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1. 'The federal court for the Eastern District of New York has issued an emergency stay

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Sat Jan 28, 2017, 10:22 PM

Jan 2017

halting President Trump's executive order banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S, The Verge reported Saturday night.

The court ruled on a habeas corpus petition filed by the ACLU on behalf of two Iraqi men who were detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday after Trump's ban.

Since then both men, Hameed Khalid Darweesh and Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshaw, have reportedly been granted entry to the U.S.

Dale Ho, director of the ACLU's Voting Rights Project, tweeted:'>>>

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/316714-federal-judge-blocks-trump-immigration-ban-nationwide

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