Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson said Thursday his office is asking a federal judge to extend its blockade of President Trump’s immigration ban to the newest executive action taken by the president.
Three states joining Washington’s effort include Minnesota, New York, and Oregon. The state of Hawaii was the first to go to court against Trump’s new immigration ban, in a suit on Tuesday.
“President Trump’s latest executive order is a Muslim Ban by another name, imposing policies and protocols that once again violate the equal protection clause and establishment clause of the United States Constitution,” said New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in a statement. “As the Trump White House has already said, the administration’s latest Muslim Ban seeks to accomplish the same unlawful and unconstitutional outcomes as the original order. Smart, aggressive litigation by state attorneys general and civil rights advocates across the country successfully torpedoed President Trump’s first Muslim ban, and I am pleased that as state AGs, we are now marshaling our resources to fight Trump’s latest, unconstitutional decree in the Ninth Circuit.”
Trump took additional executive action regarding his immigration ban after the federal judge granted the temporary restraining order blocking the ban, which a three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals chose to keep in place.
“Asking Judge Robart to confirm TRO we obtained prevents implementation of Pres. Trump’s new Exec Order.” -BF pic.twitter.com/q4FdoWwvCk
— WA Attorney General (@AGOWA) March 9, 2017
