Federal judge in Hawaii blocks President Trump’s new travel ban executive order

A federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday issued a freeze of President Trump’s new executive travel ban order hours before it would have temporarily barred the issuance of new visas to citizens of six Muslim-majority countries and suspended the admission of new refugees. The new executive ban was supposed to have taken off today, March 16th, 2017. In a 43-page opinion, U.S. District Judge