Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Latest Travel Ban Nationwide<br />By ALEXANDER BURNSMARCH 15, 2017<br />A federal judge in Hawaii issued a nationwide order Wednesday evening blocking President Trump’s ban on travel from parts of the Muslim world, dealing a political blow to the White House and signaling<br />that proponents of the ban face a long and risky legal battle ahead.<br />Mr. Trump has reacted with fury to unfavorable court rulings in the past, savaging the judiciary after the court<br />in Seattle blocked major parts of his first travel order and singling out the judge for derision on Twitter.<br />The ruling was the second frustrating defeat for Mr. Trump’s travel ban, after a federal<br />court in Seattle halted an earlier version of the executive order last month.<br />The lawsuits also cited Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who advises Mr.<br />Trump, who said he had been asked to help craft a Muslim ban that would pass legal muster.<br />But Mr. Trump evidently failed in that goal: Democratic states and nonprofit groups<br />that work with immigrants and refugees raced into court to attack the updated order, alleging that it was a thinly veiled version of the ban on Muslim migration that he had pledged to enact last year, as a presidential candidate.<br />And they highlighted comments by Stephen Miller, an adviser to the president, who cast the changes to Mr. Trump’s<br />first travel ban as mere technical adjustments aimed at ushering the same policy past the review of a court.
