HONOLULU — A federal judge in Hawaii issued a preliminary injunction against enforcement of President Trump's travel and refugee ban Wednesday, hours after holding arguments on the matter.
And while the Justice Department urged US District Judge Derrick Watson to at least narrow his prior temporary restraining order — which halted enforcement of all of sections 2 and 6 of the executive order, the travel and refugee bans — the judge declined to do so, ruling that "there is no basis to narrow the Court’s ruling in the manner requested by the Federal Defendants."
Watson said following the morning arguments in Hawaii that he would make a decision before the end of the day on whether to convert the existing TRO into a preliminary injunction. Unlike a TRO, which lasts only for a limited period of time, the injunction issued Wednesday will stay in effect — absent a contrary order from a higher court — while the state of Hawaii's lawsuit challenging the travel ban works its way through the courts.
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