Trump Will Rescind Travel Ban Executive Order: DOJ

SEATTLE, WA — Department of Justice attorneys filed a brief in federal court Thursday that states President Donald Trump will soon rescind his travel ban, which is temporarily on hold due to a restraining order.

The brief was filed by Department of Justice attorneys in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in an ongoing lawsuit between the Trump administration and the states of Washington and Minnesota, which are suing to overturn the executive order.

"Rather than continuing this litigation, the president intends in the near future to rescind the order and replace it with a new, substantially revised executive order to eliminate what the panel erroneously thought were constitutional concerns," the attorneys wrote in the brief.

The brief concludes by asking the court to put the lawsuit on hold until Trump issues a new executive order.

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson — later joined by the state of Minnesota — filed the suit against Trump's travel ban on Feb. 3. That same day, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order against the executive order, which banned travel to the U.S. from seven majority-Muslim countries.

That restraining order was upheld last week by a three-judge panel from the Ninth Circuit. On Monday, Judge James Robart, of the Western District Court of Washington in Seattle, said that Ferguson's lawsuit against Trump could proceed.

During a press conference on Thursday, Trump said that, as soon as next week, he would issue a new "very comprehensive order to protect our people." The new order, he said, would be tailored to avoid a court challenge.

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