Massachusetts to join court battle against Trump travel ban

Massachusetts on Tuesday plans to join a court fight against U.S. President Donald Trump’s order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, a move that the state’s attorney general criticized as unconstitutional.

Attorney General Maura Healey, a Democrat, said in a posting on Twitter late on Monday that her office would join a lawsuit in federal court challenging the ban. A federal judge in Boston, home to Logan International Airport, on Saturday blocked Trump’s order from being enforced for seven days.

“We will be joining in a lawsuit challenging Trump’s immigration order,” Healy said on Twitter. “What he did was unconstitutional & harmful to (Massachusetts).”

Massachusetts would be following the lead of Washington State, which said on Monday that it would be filing a lawsuit in federal court challenging the ban on constitutional grounds.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/massachusetts-to-join-court-battle-against-trump-travel-ban/