A group of tech firms plans to meet today to organize the filing of an amicus brief to support a lawsuit that will challenge U.S. President Donald Trump's “Muslim Ban” arbitrarily restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries in which Trump has no business interests. Adjacent Muslim-majority nations in which Trump does have business interests were left untouched by the ban, which administration staffers took great pains to keep secret from other government officials and the public.
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