Derrick Watson, a district judge in Honolulu, has blocked Donald Trump’s revised travel ban just hours before it was scheduled to go into effect, marking another stinging blow to the administration. He said: “When [Mr. Trump] first announced it, he said, ‘Muslim ban.’ He called me up. He remarked: ‘[N]o, it’s not the Muslim ban. But it’s countries that have tremendous terror ... [I]t’s countries that people are going to come in and cause us tremendous problems.’ … When signing the first Executive Order [No. He said: “When [Mr. Trump] first announced it, he said, ‘Muslim ban.’ He called me up.

Source: The Guardian March 16, 2017 04:39 UTC