A federal judge in Seattle late on Friday temporarily halted President Donald Trump’s travel clampdown, issuing a ruling that applies on a nationwide basis.
US District Judge James Robart, who was appointed to the bench in 2003 by former President George W Bush, granted a request by Washington’s state attorney-general to stop implementation of Mr Trump’s ban on refugees and travellers from seven Muslim-majority nations.
The judge’s temporary restraining order will remain in nationwide effect until Mr Robart considers the state’s challenge to the president’s January 27 travel ban as illegal and unconstitutional.
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