1. Noah Purcell gained national attention when he halted President Donald Trump's first travel ban with a successful lawsuit on behalf of the State of Washington in Washington v Trump.
10 Facts About Noah Purcell
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Noah Purcell graduated from the University of Washington in 2002, where he earned a Mary Gates Leadership award for his work on affordable tuition.
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Noah Purcell later earned a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
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From 2009 to 2010, Noah Purcell served in the United States Department of Homeland Security, where he worked to challenge Arizona's immigration law implemented during the administration of Jan Brewer.
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Noah Purcell has litigation experience and knowledge as in the areas of constitutional issues, campaign financing, and environmental law, and administrative law.
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Noah Purcell is a member of the King County Bar Association, and was awarded the Friend of the Legal Profession Award by the association in 2017.
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Under Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, Noah Purcell led the state's challenge to Donald Trump's Executive Order 13769, which restricted travel to the United States from seven Muslim-majority nations.
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Noah Purcell argued the state's case before Judge James Robart of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Noah Purcell has spoken about how the travel ban had a personal impact on his family because his wife is the daughter of Iranian immigrants who fled their country in the 1970s.
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Noah Purcell stated he would only run if Bob Ferguson, the incumbent attorney general, ran for governor.