...“We're sponsoring and participating in Friday's action because lawyers, like everyone else, need to be counted upon to stand up to any and all illegal actions of this and future presidencies,” Vince Warren, the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, told AlterNet. “There is a clear tendency for this administration to govern more in defiance of the law than in accordance with it. Millions of people are impacted by ill-considered and sometimes unlawful executive orders, and lawyers and the judiciary will be key to ensuring that people are treated fairly and that the president is not above the law.”...

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