U.S. District Judge James L. Robart declined to declare immediately that his freeze of Trump’s first travel ban applied to the second. (U.S. Courts)A federal judge in Washington state on Friday declined to declare immediately that his freeze of President Trump’s original travel ban applied to the new executive order, saying he could not do so until the state filed an amended complaint challenging the new directive head-on. [Washington state asks judge to declare that freeze of first Trump travel ban applies to new order]Neither side, Robart wrote, had filed a motion for him to consider, and the state’s previous complaints were directed at an executive order that is now revoked. “Accordingly, the court also declines to resolve the apparent dispute between the parties concerning the applicability of the court’s injunctive order to the New Executive Order until such time as an amended complaint that addresses the New Executive Order is properly before the court,” Robart wrote. A federal judge in Maryland will also hear arguments on that day in a separate lawsuit over the ban.

Source: Washington Post March 11, 2017 02:10 UTC