“U.S. citizens have a right to be heard and to challenge the government before the government takes action against them,” a lawyer for the plaintiffs told JNS.
A pair of Israeli-Americans filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration on Thursday alleging that it had improperly imposed sanctions on them under an executive order intended to combat “extremist settler violence” in Judea and Samaria.
Matthew Mainen, a lawyer representing the plaintiffs on behalf of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told JNS that the case, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, raises basic questions about the rights of U.S. citizens to due process under the law.
“American citizens have a right to be heard and to challenge the government before the government takes action against them or deprives them of some interest,” Mainen said. “The Biden administration, with what appears to be zero due diligence, did just that.”