Harvard sues Trump administration to protect international students

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5. What's impressive is the speed in which Harvard's lawyers put together the complaint and TRO request

Its a nearly 60 page motion for a temporary restraining order with over 50 case citations. The lead law firm filing it is headed by an attorney who previously worked for the US Chamber of Commerce and clerked for Justice Scalia. He also was a lawyer at WilmerHale, one of the firms that has chosen to fight, rather than capitulate to, Trump's attacks on law firms. Other members of that team include lawyers that served as clerks for Kavanaugh and Kennedy and worked as WilmerHale. They are supported by Jenner & Block, another firm that has spit in the eye of Trump's law firm executive orders and Quinn Emanuel, a firm that previously had shied away from taking on the Trump administration. The lawyers from those two firms include former clerks for Justices Kennedy and Stevens.

In short, Harvard has put together a team of super lawyers that have close ties to the Supreme Court and to both Republican and Democratic administrations.