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ATG News Release: Hawaii To Challenge Travel Ban 3.0

Press Release

By: David Ige
By: David Ige
Date: Oct. 5, 2017
Location: Honolulu, HI
Issues: Foreign Affairs

Today Hawaii filed supplemental briefing with the United States Supreme Court regarding the Hawaii v. Trump litigation. Shortly after filing that supplemental briefing, Hawaii notified the U.S. Supreme Court that it intends to seek leave from the Hawaii federal district court to file an amended complaint challenging the lawfulness of the third travel ban.

Attorney General Doug Chin said, "Hawaii fought the first and second travel bans because they were illegal and unconstitutional efforts to implement the President's Muslim ban. Unfortunately, the third travel ban is more of the same. This new ban still discriminates on the basis of nationality, it still exceeds the President's legal authority, and it still seeks to implement his Muslim ban. Simply adding an obvious target like North Korea to the list and banning travel by some government officials from Venezuela does nothing to disguise this. And -- unlike the first two versions -- Travel Ban 3.0 has no end date."


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