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Joshua Geltzer, founding executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center, meets up with Marcia Coyle, the NLJ's senior Washington correspondent, about the founding of the institute and what's coming up at the U.S. Supreme Court at the end of the argument session.

Hogan Lovells partner Neal Katyal, the institute's faculty chair and a national security professor at the law school, is set to argue April 25 against the Trump administration's travel ban.

“The the case is unprecedented because what the president has tried to do here is unprecedented,” Geltzer says. “This president has tried with one signature of his pen to keep out 150 million people from this country. And he's done it with a consistent focus on delivering on a campaign promise—and that campaign promise was, in his words, the complete and total shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”

The Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection is co-counsel in a challenge to a Texas state law that critics contend compels local authorities to enforce immigration laws in ways Congress did not intend. A federal appeals court in March said Texas Senate Bill 4 can remain in effect while challenges are pending.

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