A new updated executive order of the travel ban is in the works, although, the final decision of whether to go through with updating the Executive Order is still unclear.
Earlier in Trump’s administration, Trump’s current executive order aimed to ban entrance to foreign nationals of seven Muslin-majority countries to the United States for 90 days and 120 days for all refugees. However, for the war against the ISIS and the diplomatic purposes, the advocacy for the removal of Iraq from the administration’s list of banned countries has come from the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and National Security advisor H.R. McMaster.
Lawyers for the Justice Department announced Trump plans to replace the previous executive order on travel ban with a new and improved Executive Order that would ban travel from certain Middle Eastern and African countries which would exclude Iraq from the list.
There is an uncertainty on whether the President will keep the existing travel ban from earlier this year along with the newly updated travel ban or if he will replace the existing order with the new Executive Order.
Judge James Robart, the same judge who granted the temporary constraints against the current executive order, notes the frustrations of the contradictions that have been brought between from the lawyers of the Justice Department and the press secretary Sean Spicer. Press secretary Spicer has made the statement of having the new executive order existing with the previous order.
Given a written order granting Trump’s administration a two-week extension to response to the federal class-action lawsuit against the travel ban. A written decision from Judge Robart states it will rely on representations of the government’s attorneys that indicate the new and improved Executive Order will replace or rescind the existing Executive Order from early this year in January.
