On Monday, The Council on American-Islamic-Relations filed a federal lawsuit against Trump’s executive order, which it refers to as a “Muslim Exclusion Order.” The lawsuit argues the executive order is unconstitutional and violates the First Amendment’s religious freedom protections and the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection. This is CAIR lawyer Gadeir Abbas.

Gadeir Abbas: “President Trump’s actions are not simply words on paper. They’re the grandest monument to anti-Muslim sentiment that America has ever known. We’re not talking about the 15th Amendment or an amendment later in the teens or the 20s. We’re talking about the very first amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits a government from favoring one faith over another. And there are few times in American history where the government has officially disfavored a whole a religious faith, and this is one of those instances.”