Top Attorneys Take to Twitter to Oppose Trump’s Immigration Ban

Top appellate attorney Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. first spoke out against a ban on Muslim immigrants more than a year ago, when then-candidate Donald J. Trump proposed the idea on the campaign trail.

“It’s an absurd proposal that would plainly and blatantly violate First Amendment, due process and equal protection rights,” Boutrous, a Los Angeles-based partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher told Bloomberg Politics in a story that appeared on Dec. 7, 2015 . “It would be completely unworkable, create a firestorm with other countries, and flatly contradict the basic principles on which the country was founded.”

Boutrous tweeted his ...