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Friday, March 10, 2017
Legal challenges to Trump’s
travel ban mount from states
SEATTLE — Legal
challenges against President
Donald Trump’s revised
travel ban mounted Thursday
as Washington state said it
would renew its request to
block the executive order
and a judge granted Oregon’s
request to join the case.
The events happened a
day after Hawaii launched its
own lawsuit, and Washington
state Attorney General Bob
Ferguson said New York
state also asked to join his
state’s legal effort. Massa-
chusetts Attorney General
Maura Healey said the state
is joining fellow states in
challenging the revised travel
ban.
Washington was the first
state to sue over the original
ban, which resulted in Judge
James Robart in Seattle
halting its implementation
around the country. Ferguson
said the state would ask
Robart to rule that his
temporary restraining order
against the first ban applies to
Trump’s revised action.
“My message to President
Trump is — not so fast,”
Ferguson told reporters.
“After spending more than a
month to fix a broken order
that he rushed out the door,
the President’s new order
reinstates several of the same
provisions and has the same
illegal motivations as the
original.”
Robart on Thursday
granted Oregon’s request to
join Washington and Minne-
sota in the case opposing the
travel ban.
Oregon Attorney General
Ellen
Rosenblum
said
the executive order has
hurt Oregon, its residents,
employers, agencies, educa-
tional institutions, health care
system and economy.
Trump’s revised ban bars
new visas for people from six
predominantly Muslim coun-
tries: Somalia, Iran, Syria,
Sudan, Libya and Yemen. It
also temporarily shuts down
the U.S. refugee program.
Unlike the initial order,
the new one says current visa
holders won’t be affected,
and removes language that
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
Washington State Attorney General Bob Fergu-
son speaks at a news conference about the state’s
response to President Trump’s revised travel ban
Thursday in Seattle.
— Bob Ferguson,
Washington state
Attorney General
would give priority to reli-
gious minorities.
Hawaii Attorney General
Douglas Chin said that the
state could not stay silent on
Trump’s travel ban because
of Hawaii’s unique culture
and history. Hawaii depends
heavily on tourism, and the
revised ban would hurt the
state’s economy, he said.
The courts need to hear
“that there’s a state where
ethnic diversity is the norm,
where people are welcomed
with aloha and respect,” Chin
said.
He noted that the new
travel ban order comes just
after the 75th anniversary of
the Feb. 19, 1942, executive
order by President Franklin
Roosevelt that sent Japanese
Americans were sent to
internment camps during
World War II. That order was
put in place after the Japa-
nese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Hawaii had an internment
camp.
Ferguson said it’s not the
government, but the court,
that gets to decide whether
the revised order is different
enough that it would not be
covered by previous tempo-
rary restraining order.
“It cannot be a game of
whack-a-mole for the court,”
he said.
White House spokesman
Sean Spicer said Thursday
the administration believed
the revised travel ban will
stand up to legal scrutiny.
“We feel very confident
with how that was crafted
had previously sued over
Trump’s initial travel ban, but
that lawsuit was put on hold
while other cases played out
across the country.
Hawaii’s
complaint
says it is suing to protect its
residents, businesses and
schools, as well as its “sover-
eignty against illegal actions
of President Donald J. Trump
and the federal government.”
Imam Ismail Elshikh of
the Muslim Association of
Hawaii is a plaintiff in the
state’s challenge. The ban
will prevent his Syrian moth-
er-in-law from visiting him,
he said.
The imam is a U.S.
citizen, has rights and would
be prevented from seeing
his mother-in-law, Chin
said. The mother-in-law is
awaiting approval of a visa
to see her relatives in Hawaii.
The woman and others
have become victims because
of the ban’s “standardless set
of waivers and exceptions
that weren’t set by Congress,”
Chin said.
Hawaii’s lawsuit chal-
lenging the travel ban focuses
on damage to the state’s
economy and mainly tourism.
Chin says the tourism angle
is unique because the state
relies heavily on visitors and
Hawaii officials have a right
to defend the economy.
He said people may fear
traveling even within Hawaii
because they would be forced
to encounter a federal agent
every time they get on a plane
to visit a neighboring island.
and the input that was given,”
Spicer said.
Ferguson said he was
pleased that attorneys general
from New York and Oregon
had sought to take part in the
legal action.
“We have a strong case
and they are willing to join
our efforts,” he said of his
fellow Democrats. New
York Attorney General Eric
Schneiderman in a statement
called the executive order
“a Muslim ban by another
name.”
Other states that have filed
briefs supporting Washing-
ton’s initial lawsuit include
California,
Connecticut,
Delaware, Illinois, Iowa,
Maine, Maryland, New
Mexico,
Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, Vermont and
Virginia.
In his initial lawsuit
Ferguson said the original
ban was unconstitutional and
hurt the state’s businesses
and universities.
A federal appellate court
later upheld a temporary
restraining order issued
against the first travel ban.
The Trump administration
says the old order will be
revoked once the new one
goes into effect on March 16.
In filing a lawsuit
Wednesday night, Hawaii
said the revised order would
harm its Muslim population,
tourism and foreign students
Attorneys for Hawaii
filed the lawsuit against the
U.S. government in federal
court in Honolulu. The state
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21° (1933)
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Moses
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The Dalles 61/35
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John Day
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Burns
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proper medical treatment.
During the break, Jackson
told The Associated Press
that Burleson has a history of
seizures and felt that he was
having another one.
When court reconvened,
Burleson was back in the
courtroom in his wheelchair,
and Clark County Sheriff
Joe Lombardo was back in
the witness box.
The judge said medics
checked Burleson and
reported that his vital signs
were normal but he might
have been dehydrated.
Burleson and co-defen-
dants Eric Parker, Orville
Scott
Drexler,
Steven
Stewart, Todd Engel and
Richard Lovelien are the first
of 17 defendants to stand
trial in the standoff near the
Bundy ranch, about 80 miles
northeast of Las Vegas.
Each is accused of
10
charges
including
conspiracy, firearm offenses
and assault on a federal
officer.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A
medical complaint by a
defendant with a history
of health problems briefly
interrupted a trial Thursday
in Las Vegas for six men
accused of wielding guns
during a 2014 armed
standoff between followers
of Nevada rancher Cliven
Bundy and federal agents.
An attorney for Gregory
Burleson rose suddenly
during
testimony
and
told Chief U.S. District
Judge Gloria Navarro that
Burleson needed immediate
attention.
Attorneys and spectators
in the courtroom said
Burleson became pale and
his hands were shaking
when the judge called a
two-hour break.
Burleson, 53, of Arizona
is blind, diabetic and uses
a wheelchair. His attorney,
Terrence Jackson, has
argued several times for
Burleson’s release from jail,
saying he wasn’t getting
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the Willamette Valley will
be shut down. The hatchery
will have its trout production
put out for public bid to be
raised for the Corps else-
where, the agency said.
The decision to put Cole
Rivers out to bid comes
after the Corps announced
last month that a review of
its contracting rules found
running mitigation hatch-
eries on a contract basis was
more appropriate than the
cooperative agreements.
The agreement for the
state to run Cole Rivers
expires June 30. The
winning bidder would take
over July 1 with a one-year
contract that includes the
potential for two one-year
extensions.
The hatchery releases
nearly 2.8 million salmon,
steelhead and trout annually
throughout the Rogue Basin.
Defendant’s medical complaint
interrupts standoff trial
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MEDFORD (AP) — A
hatchery in southwest
Oregon’s Rogue River Basin
is having its operations put
up for competitive bidding.
The Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife and
several private companies
will be able to bid on the
Cole Rivers hatchery next
week, The Mail Tribune
reported.
The hatchery is one of
seven owned by the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers in
Oregon and operated by the
department. The cooperative
agreement allows the state
to raise salmon, steelhead
and trout as mitigation for
wild fish habitat lost by the
construction of Corps dams.
Federal officials have
determined five of the
hatcheries can likely remain
under state operation, while
the Leaburg Hatchery in
“After spending
more than a month
to fix a broken order
that he rushed out
the door, the Pres-
ident’s new order
reinstates several of
the same provisions
and has the same
illegal motivations as
the original.”
Associated Press
TODAY
Federally-owned
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Low -3° in St. Mary, Mont.
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