Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson will discuss the case that placed him and the state of Washington in the center of the national debate on immigration during a free, public forum at Gonzaga this week.
Ferguson and his staff filed a lawsuit to halt enforcement of President Donald Trump’s first executive order on immigration and refugees shortly after it was issued in January. As a result, U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle suspended the ban and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reinstate it.
His presentation will be at noon March 24 in the Barbieri Courtroom at the Gonzaga University School of Law.
According to a press release, Ferguson holds that the original suit, and restraining order, also applies to Trump’s revised executive order, issued March 6. A federal judge in Hawaii blocked implementation of that new executive order to ban U.S. travel for all refugees and immigrants from six countries.
Ferguson will discuss the legal and constitutional aspects of the case and will take questions from the audience following his presentation, according to the release.
