Muslim civil rights group challenges Trump travel ban
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Muslim civil rights group has joined the legal battle to overturn President Donald Trump’s travel ban directed at seven Muslim-majority nations.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria challenging Trump’s executive order. The lawsuit characterizes the ban as a first step in fulfilling Trump’s campaign promise to impose “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” until the government “can figure out what is going on.”
Trump’s order suspends immigration for citizens of the seven countries for 90 days. Trump has said the action is being falsely characterized as a “Muslim ban.”
At a news conference Monday, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Trump is “doing exactly what he told the American people he would do.”