Washington state to sue over Trump’s immigration order

Published January 30, 2017 6:59pm ET



State Attorney General Bob Ferguson of Washington announced Monday he will file a lawsuit in federal court against President Trump’s executive order on immigration.

Ferguson, a Democrat, who has been vocal in his opposition to Trump’s recently signed immigration order, said the lawsuit will ask the U.S. District Court of Western Washington to find key provisions of the executive order to be “unconstitutional.”

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