For Yale Law Group Fighting Trump’s Travel Ban, Echoes of 1991
Retro Report By
CLYDE HABERMAN
MARCH 6, 2017
A group of Yale law school students was following a familiar path when they helped launch a lawsuit against President Trump’s travel ban – a ban
that has now been revised after facing legal challenges.
" he said, "your goal is to make the law serve justice, not just make the law serve power." The video with
this article is part of a documentary series presented by The New York Times. that If you’re a lawyer,
The focus is on a network of current and former students at Yale Law School who helped draft a legal petition
that became part of the pushback that stopped the first Trump order in its tracks.
Lisa Daugaard said that there have to be rules, and there have
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.
Their challenge to presidential authority was sustained by federal judges, and their motivation underpins this short video from Retro Report, a documentary series
that mines the past for guidance as to what may lie ahead.
