Donald Trump’s revised travel ban blocked AGAIN by United States judges

Earlier Wednesday, Watson heard oral arguments from both sides, reportedly appearing skeptical of the government’s case that Trump’s prior statements promising a Muslim ban should be omitted from the case.

“The Constitution has once again put the brakes on President Trump’s disgraceful and discriminatory ban”.

It reads: “Direct statements of President Trump’s animus towards Muslims and intention to impose a ban on Muslims entering the United States, present a convincing case that the First Executive Order was issued to accomplish, as almost as possible, President Trump’s promised Muslim ban”.

The federal building housing U.S. District Court in Honolulu, March 7, 2014.

The executive order aimed to temporarily bar entry to most refugees as well as travellers from six Muslim-majority countries. California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and OR joined Washington in the legal action. In other words, the court didn’t buy that Trump had a change of heart and suddenly doesn’t want to ban people based on their religion.

Which is sure to hamstring the arguments made by his government’s lawyers before already skeptical federal judges. It also aims to bar refugees from the US for 120 days.

Attorney General Bob Ferguson, flanked by civil rights lead Colleen Melody and Solicitor General Noah Purcell, says he’ll continue fighting Trump’s immigration agenda. “It doesn’t draw any religious distinctions”.

Last month, a federal court in Seattle froze the first rendition of Trump’s travel ban, and was upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. U.S. District Judge James Robart was the first.

Mr Trump signed the first order a week after his 20 January inauguration.

Immigrant advocacy groups and the ACLU are suing in Maryland. Washington state quickly followed with its own lawsuit.

Ferguson acknowledged the changes to the order but said it still “bars entry for virtually all other individuals from the listed countries”, including relatives of USA citizens and students who have been admitted to state universities and people who might seek work at schools and businesses.

The original travel ban created chaos in airports around the world as immigration officers struggled to figure out who was covered. Taking certain language out of the executive order does not mean that the administration’s intent can no longer be considered by a court.

“The order he blocked was a watered-down version of the first one”, Trump said, as the crowd booed the news.