A federal judge in Seattle on Friday afternoon temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s Muslim ban nationwide. The judge, James Robart, was appointed by former President George W. Bush. Buzzfeed writes:
A federal judge in Washington issued the furthest reaching order yet against President Trump’s refugee and travel ban executive order, media at the Friday hearing reported, granting a nationwide order halting enforcement of significant parts of the order.
“The decision shuts down the executive order immediately,” Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a news conference outside the courthouse after US District Judge James Robert issued his ruling in the lawsuit, brought by Ferguson on behalf of the state.
Ferguson had been seeking an order halting enforcement of both the refugee and the section addressing travel from seven majority-Muslim nations. A written copy of the judge’s order, however, was not immediately available to determine the precise confines of the judge’s ruling.