By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer
Princeton University and the seven other Ivy League colleges joined the legal fight against an executive order by President Donald J. Trump putting a temporary travel ban on people entering the United States from seven mostly Muslim countries in parts of Africa and the Middle East., Nassau Hall announced Monday that Princeton and 16 other peer schools had filed a friend of the court brief in a case challenging the order, in New York federal court. The president’s action has been held in abeyance by a federal judge, whose decision was upheld last week by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in California., In their court filing, the 17 universities said “they educate, employ, conduct research, and collaborate with students, faculty, and scholars from all over the world—individuals who speak different languages, practice different religions, and have wide-ranging life experiences that illuminate [their] campuses and support their academic missions.”, “These international students, faculty, and scholars, make significant contributions to their fields of study and to campus life by bringing their unique perspectives and talents to … classrooms, laboratories, and performance spaces,” the court filing said., The president last month put a temporary halt on travelers coming form Libya, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen and Somalia for 90 days, and sought to halt refugees into the United States for 120 days. But his decision was met with legal challenges, including one by the Attorney General of New York, the legal action that Princeton and the other schools joined.
