Federal Judge Orders Trump To Share Giuliani’s ‘Legal’ Muslim-Ban Memo
Donald Trump’s Muslim-ban just hit another legal speedbump.
A federal judge in Detroit on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to turn over the memo drafted by Rudy Giuliani’s outlining a plan to implement a Muslim-ban “legally.”
According to Bloomberg, “While running for president, Donald Trump asked Giuliani to form a commission that would help draft a “Muslim ban” to “show [him] the right way to do it legally” after his initial proposal drew widespread public condemnation, according to a court filing by the Arab American Civil Rights League. The commission then recommended that “nationality be used as a proxy for religion,” the group said in the filing.”
District Judge Victoria Roberts in Detroit directed Donald Trump to produce the document by May 19.
Trump’s current iteration of the Muslim-ban has been blocked by the courts and “the order comes four days before Trump’s attorneys are slated to defend his revised travel ban in a federal appeals court against claims that it was drafted with discriminatory intent toward Muslims.”
You can read the full Bloomberg piece here.
