PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — On Saturday afternoon, lawyer Stephen Manning sat inside a van parked outside the ICE facility in South Portland.
But the van is much more than that. It’s a fully equipped mobile legal office dubbed the Justice Bus.
“The Fifth Amendment does not take a vacation day,” said Manning, the executive director of Innovation Law Lab. The Justice Bus allows lawyers to “show up where due process is needed.”
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The van, which was donated to the Innovation Law Lab, is outfitted with Wi-Fi, computers and legal books. The lawyers on the Justice Bus are bilingual in English and Spanish, but it also has access to 64 other languages. It’s also solar powered, which lets the Justice Bus go easily into rural Oregon’s agricultural field and ranches in eastern and southern Oregon…