A federal judge in Hawaii on Thursday declined a motion to clarify his March injunction against the president’s travel ban executive order, deferring to the U.S. Supreme Court.
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson of Hawaii said in his ruling that because the high court had outlined its own parameters for his injunction, he lacked the authority to decide to whom the injunction now applied. The state of Hawaii asked Watson in a motion last month to clarify the scope of his injunction against Trump’s March 6 executive order limiting travel from six majority-Muslim countries, in light of the Supreme Court’s June 26 decision allowing the ban to go into effect. That ruling lifted the injunction except with respect to those with “bona fide relationships” to people or entities in the U.S., such as students attending U.S. schools or those with “close familial relationships” to people in the country.
