Author / Header Image – Shirin Sinnar is the William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor of Law at the Stanford Law School.
(Originally published by The Stanford Daily on January 28, 2025.)
In 2017, when President Trump first banned people from several majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States, protests erupted around the country. As people of all races and religions flocked to airports to oppose the Muslim ban, universities including Stanford also voiced their opposition. Stanford leaders declared that “policies that restrict the broad flow of people and ideas across national borders, or that have the effect or appearance of excluding people based on religion or ethnicity, are deeply antithetical to both our mission and our values.” Stanford joined 16 other universities in submitting a legal brief challenging the discriminatory order in court.
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