The “repeated delays demonstrate just how difficult it will be for the president to craft a constitutional order,” said Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson. He spearheaded the lawsuit that led to the nationwide injunction that kept the travel ban from being enforced.
“Nearly four weeks have passed since I obtained an injunction halting President Trump’s hastily-issued, unconstitutional and illegal executive order,” he said in an email. “That’s four times as long as it took his administration to rush that initial order out the door, citing urgent national security concerns.”
The entire process of redrafting a travel ban seems like more evidence the executive order wasn’t necessary in the first place, said Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, which was part of the Brooklyn lawsuit suit ― one of the first filed against the initial order.
“You would think if it were such a necessity for our national security and our safety that they would have issued something quickly,” Hincapié said. “But now delaying it because his approval ratings are increasing and they don’t want his approval ratings to drop again ... undermines their arguments that this is actually necessary for national security.”
Elise Foley reported from Washington. Cristian Farias reported from New York.
“Nearly four weeks have passed since I obtained an injunction halting President Trump’s hastily-issued, unconstitutional and illegal executive order,” he said in an email. “That’s four times as long as it took his administration to rush that initial order out the door, citing urgent national security concerns.”
The entire process of redrafting a travel ban seems like more evidence the executive order wasn’t necessary in the first place, said Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, which was part of the Brooklyn lawsuit suit ― one of the first filed against the initial order.
“You would think if it were such a necessity for our national security and our safety that they would have issued something quickly,” Hincapié said. “But now delaying it because his approval ratings are increasing and they don’t want his approval ratings to drop again ... undermines their arguments that this is actually necessary for national security.”
Elise Foley reported from Washington. Cristian Farias reported from New York.
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