Hawaii to Become First State to Challenge Trump's Travel Ban in Court
The action, which lawyers for the state hope to file Wednesday in Hawaii, would mark the first formal legal challenge to the order, which the US president signed on Monday. Hawaii also sued over Trump’s first travel ban, and lawyers for the state told a judge in a court filing that they want to resume that litigation to ask for a temporary restraining order on the new directive.
Democrats and civil liberties groups had asserted soon after Trump signed a revised executive order that more litigation was all but certain because they consider the measure as a thinly veiled Muslim ban.
The new order,
which is scheduled to take effect on March 16, reduces the list of affected
countries from seven to six – removing Iraq while keeping Iran, Somalia, Sudan,
Libya, Yemen and Syria. It blocks only the issuance of new visas for citizens
of the targeted countries for 90 days and keeps intact a 120-day suspension of
the US refugee program.
Source: IINA
