

Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the A.C.L.U.’s Immigrants’ Rights Project and the lead lawyer on the case, dialed in from the A.C.L.U.’s national offices in Lower Manhattan Sarah Fabian, an attorney at the Department of Justice, called from Washington. Did the White House’s decision - in theory, anyway - negate the need for a nationwide injunction to stop family separation? And how did it affect the children who had already been separated? Now, on that Friday afternoon, Sabraw asked the lawyers to call in to discuss how the executive order affected their cases. asked that Sabraw issue a nationwide injunction, which the judge was still considering when the White House, with no legal room to maneuver and public outcry intensifying by the day, issued an executive order on June 20 saying the practice would be stopped. Bush nominee in the Southern District of California, rejected the government’s motion to dismiss the case and ruled that in detaining the immigrants, it was violating the due-process clause of the Fifth Amendment. L., whose daughter was taken from her in November 2017, but it quickly grew into a national class action on behalf of every family whose children had been taken from them. filed its suit.) It began with a single client, a 39-year-old Congolese woman, Ms. (As a point of comparison, a coalition of 18 state attorneys general filed a suit to stop family separation on June 26, four months to the day after the A.C.L.U. ICE - was filed in late February, long before most of the rest of the world was aware that thousands of children were being separated from their families at the border. At 3 p.m., a conference call was scheduled to discuss the more than 2,000 children whose fates were tied to another A.C.L.U. It was a landmark ruling that changed the future of digital privacy in America, but news of the win was only the second most important thing happening at the A.C.L.U. United States, which was possibly, at least in terms of pure jurisprudence, the most important case argued before the court this past session. On the morning of Friday, June 22, the American Civil Liberties Union won a major Supreme Court decision in Carpenter v.
