Washington state seeks to apply block to new travel ban
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson said the injunction blocking key sections of President Trump’s previous immigration Executive Order applies to the new version.
According to Ferguson, this is not a lawsuit, and that it is up to the Trump Administration to argue against this claim.
“My message to President Trump is – not so fast,” said Ferguson. “After spending more than a month to fix a broken order that he rushed out the door, the President’s new order reinstates several of the same provisions and has the same illegal motivations as the original.”
Washington filed the state lawsuit challenging the first ban on January 30.
On February 3, a Temporary Restraining Order halted the implementation of that Executive Order nationwide. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals later upheld that order.
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