Washington State, Massachusetts Wants Stay To Apply To Travel Ban 2.0

The revised order will temporarily halt entry to the USA for people from six Muslim-majority nations who are seeking new visas, though allowing those with current visas to travel freely, according to a fact sheet obtained Monday by The Associated Press. It also removed an indefinite ban on all refugees from Syria.

Ferguson acknowledged that the new order “has been narrowed, but he added: “That does not mean that it’s cured its constitutional problems”.

Trump’s new order, which is set to take effect on March 16, temporarily blocks the issuance of new visas to citizens of six Muslim-majority countries, and it suspends the USA refugee program.

The new order replaces one Mr. Trump signed on Jan 27. The Trump administration might be taking a mulligan on the temporary, immediate measures in its travel ban, but it’s still laying the groundwork for a permanent tightening of visas in the medium term.

“It can not be a game of whack-a-mole for the court”, Ferguson said.

Three states are asking the Seattle judge to rule that his suspension of the original Trump travel ban applies to the revised version, too.

Five states – Washington, Minnesota, Oregon, New York and MA – are asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Seattle to issue an injunction against the measure.

The new ban differs from the executive order Trump signed on January 27 on several points that the Trump administration hopes will blunt criticism and help the new order pass legal muster.

U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson granted the state’s request to continue with the case and set a hearing for March 15 – the day before Trump’s order is due to go into effect. Read the full order here.

But critics maintain the revised travel ban discriminates against Muslims.

“I have always shared President Trump’s desire to protect our homeland”, Graham said in a statement. It still applies to Iran, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Sudan and Libya.

The burden is on the Trump Administration to argue that the injunction the AG obtained no longer blocks the ban, argued the state attorney general.

Nothing of substance has changed: There is the same blanket ban on entry from Muslim-majority countries (minus one), the same sweeping shutdown of refugee admissions (absent one exception), and the same lawless warren of exceptions and waivers.

For the next week, the edict caused chaos at the airports as scores of travellers were turned back or detained, and a half-dozen legal challenges were presented in courts.

Hawaii has become the first state to sue to stop President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban.

Just hours after the order was signed, a group of plaintiffs led by the Arab American Civil Rights League announced its intention to file an amended complaint in a case challenging the original order.