Washington state will ask judge to declare that freeze of first Trump travel ban applies to new...

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



Washington state will ask judge to declare that freeze of first Trump travel ban applies to new order

By Matt Zapotosky March 9 at 2:40 PM

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who sued successfully to block President Trump’s first entry ban, said Thursday that he will ask a federal judge to affirm that the suspension of the initial ban applies to the new one.

Ferguson said Trump’s new executive order imposes many of the same economic and other harms as the first one in late January, even though it is different in important ways. And he said a federal judge, rather than the administration, should decide whether the original freeze should remain in place. “The court decides that,” Ferguson said, “not the president.”

Ferguson, a Democrat, said he will make his request to U.S. District Judge James L. Robart, the federal judge in Washington state who first suspended Trump’s ban nationwide. After Robart imposed that freeze, Trump lashed out on Twitter and targeted Robart personally.

“The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!” Trump wrote.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/washington-state-will-ask-judge-to-declare-that-freeze-of-first-trump-travel-ban-applies-to-new-order/2017/03/09/c64d54f0-04fa-11e7-ad5b-d22680e18d10_story.html?utm_term=.27d9009502dd&wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1

[Vinca]

1. You'd think the leaked intel documents would be good evidence the ban isn't based on security.

[rzemanfl]

2. Cheeto, when you start out with a "Muslim Ban" as your initial goal, all subsequent variations

look like Muslim bans, no matter how you try to disguise them. You would think a self-proclaimed, so-called smart guy would know this.