Former judges, prosecutors and defenders are protesting President Donald Trump’s sweeping order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries and his sacking of acting attorney general Sally Yates for refusing to defend it.

A group of more than 70 former federal prosecutors issued a statement in opposition to the order “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” which they called “a thinly veiled attempt to exclude Muslims from certain countries based on their religion.”

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