Anti-Obama Legal Tactics Come Back to Haunt Trump on Immigration
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Hundreds of people attend an evening rally at Washington Square Park in New York in support of Muslims, immigrants and against the building of a wall along the Mexican border.
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The legal tactics conservatives used against Barack Obama are coming back to haunt Donald Trump.
In winning court orders to halt President Trump’s travel ban and his crackdown on so-called sanctuary cities, opponents happily borrowed from the playbook that years earlier helped undercut President Obama’s health-care and immigration policies.