Wash. AG declares victory in lawsuit against Trump’s travel ban

Further and more explicitly, that Senate report contained information on the terror-related crimes, arrests and sentences of 72 individuals, whose country of origin was explicitly one of the seven terrorist-haven countries named in the Trump executive order-with the greatest number coming from Somalia, Yemen, Iraq and Syria.

At today’s press conference, the president maligned the court’s ruling.

The U.S. Department of Justice asked the appeals court on Thursday to stay any further proceedings in the case, citing Trump’s announcement during a press conference earlier that day that he would issue a new EO during the week of February 19.

Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s office sent the tweet Thursday, shortly after the administration filed new documents with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The government amended the directive to allow those citizens to enter if they held a US permanent-resident permit, commonly known as a Green Card. The original order was obviously anti-Muslim, despite government protests to the contrary. There has been a serious outcry against this ban, and while those protestors are right to be angry, Trump’s response to the backlash and the subsequent judicial reviews is possibly even more concerning than the order itself.

“The only problem that we had is we had a bad court”, Trump told the assembled reporters at the conference.

Trump did not clarify details of what would be in the new order, saying only that it would be “tailored” to the previous rulings issued by “bad” courts-most of which concluded that challenges to its constitutionality would likely prevail.

The Justice Department also took issue with the decision in its brief. And it suspended all refugee admissions for 120 days.

Last Friday, an unidentified judge on the Ninth Circuit requested that the full court vote on whether to rehear the decision reached by the three-judge panel. But lawyers for the administration said in the filing that a ban that focuses exclusively on foreigners who have never entered the USA – instead of green-card holders already in the US or who have traveled overseas and want to return – would pose no legal difficulties. “So we’ll be going along the one path and hopefully winning that; at the same time we will be issuing a new and very comprehensive order to protect our people”, he said. Or, let me ask the question this way: does anybody think the Trump administration appreciates why the ban was wrong, or do they just think that using different words to accomplish the same goals will pass constitutional muster?

U.S. District Judges James L. Robart – referred to by Trump as a “so-called judge” – determined that Washington was likely to prevail on the merits of its case.

The injunction remains in effect while Judge Robart considers the Attorney General’s lawsuit challenging key provisions of the President’s order as illegal and unconstitutional. Trump blamed much of the turmoil at US airports on a Delta Airlines computer outage. Judges panel raised serious allegations on these rules and asked about the motives of the travel ban.