Meet the man behind the challenge to Trump's travel banWashington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson speaks during a press conference at his office in Seattle on Thursday. An appeals court refused to reinstate U.S. President Donald Trump's ban on travellers from seven predominantly Muslim nations. The 51-year-old Democrat and internationally rated chess master is heading up the landmark legal challenge that brought Trump's controversial travel ban to a grinding halt last week. And so we were not caught flat-footed when the president signed his executive order," Ferguson told As It Happens' Helen Mann. Ferguson filed a state lawsuit challenging key sections of Trump's immigration executive order as illegal and unconstitutional.

Source: CBC News February 10, 2017 23:03 UTC