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Trump’s Revised ‘Vetting’ Executive Order Faces New Challenges In Courts

Homeland Security Today: It took no time for court challenges to be filed within days of President Trump issuing his revised “extreme vetting” Executive Order as his administration dismissed the pending Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal’s continued consideration of the injunction on his initial Executive Order.

Washington and Minnesota quickly argued in response to the second Executive Order, in Washington v. Trump, that the administration is simply “attempting to evade the injunction by improperly repackaging previously enjoined conduct as a new Executive Order.”

In documents filed in federal court, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson contended the injunction he obtained blocking key sections of Trump’s original immigration Executive Order also applies to the new version.

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