Trump's Tweets Are 'Authority' in Advocates' New Travel Ban Filings
In what may be a first at the U.S. Supreme Court, President Donald Trump's Twitter account was identified Monday as an "authority" along with the cases, law review articles and news citations that lawyers typically use to bolster their arguments.
June 13, 2017 at 12:02 AM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
In what may be a first at the U.S. Supreme Court, President Donald Trump's Twitter account was identified Monday as an “authority” along with the cases, law review articles and news citations that lawyers typically use to bolster their arguments.
The cited authority—”Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), Twitter (June 5, 2017), https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump—came from the challengers to the president's second executive order restricting travel from certain Muslim-majority countries.
Those challengers, represented by Hogan Lovells partner Neal Katyal, in the case Trump v. Hawaii, are urging the high court to reject a Trump administration request that would void a trial judge's order blocking the travel ban from taking effect.
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