Herring, other Va. Democrats critique new Trump travel order, Rep. Brat backs it
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, who led a legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s first travel ban affecting several Muslim-majority nations, said Monday that the new executive order still “sends a horrible message to the world.”
His office is reviewing the order to see if legal action is necessary, according to a statement. It said the new order, signed Monday, “all but concedes the significant constitutional and practical flaws that the courts and I saw in his original ban.”
The new order is narrower than the first.
On behalf of the Trump administration, U.S. Attorney Dana Boente filed a notice in the Virginia case Monday saying the new executive order revokes the old order when it takes effect March 16 and “sets forth new policies that are substantially different in form and scope” than the first order’s policies.
Specifically, Boente wrote, the new order excludes from its coverage all individuals subject to the court’s preliminary injunction order and applies only to foreign nationals from the six nations who are outside the U.S. without a valid visa when the order takes effect.
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