Washington, March 10: The US state of Washington has said that it would ask a federal judge to block President Donald Trump's new immigration ban, joining Hawaii as the second state to challenge the executive order according to media reports. 
 
The move comes a day after Hawaii launched its own lawsuit, and Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, said that despite the significant changes to the President's previous executive order, the new travel ban still suffers from legal flaws, calling it another version of muslim ban even though Iraq has been dropped from the list of countries banned from sending in people into the United states of America. 
 
Attorney generals from Massachusetts, New York and Oregon also confirmed that they were planning to join the lawsuit. Minnesota is already part of the challenge to Trump's actions. Trump signed the new executive order on Monday banning foreign nationals from six Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for 90 days and banning all refugees for 120 days, but excluded green card holders and those with existing valid visas from the order.
 
According to Ferguson, US District Court Judge James Robart's current temporary restraining order halting the original travel ban should block implementation of the new executive order as well. Robart had issued a nationwide temporary restraining order blocking implementation of the original January 27 ban on February 3.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer on Thursday said the executive order was consistent with federal law. "We're going to go forward on this," Spicer said, adding "We feel very confident with how that was crafted and the input that was given."