Donald Trump’s newly revised travel ban faced its first legal challenge late on Tuesday evening as the state of Hawaii filed a request in federal court to revise a lawsuit previously lodged against the president’s first failed ban. Hawaii’s lawsuit against the first travel ban had been placed on hold after another federal lawsuit filed by the state of Washington led to a national injunction upheld by the ninth circuit appeals court. The new motion proposes a hearing on 15 March, a day before Trump’s revised travel ban goes into full effect. It also states that government attorneys tasked with defending the ban had no position on the request for an amended lawsuit. It remains unclear whether other states that challenged Trump’s first ban will follow Hawaii’s lead.

Source: The Guardian March 08, 2017 17:15 UTC