Hours before it was set to go into effect, a federal judge in Hawaii issued a temporary nationwide block against President Donald Trump's revised travel ban. On March 6, the president signed a revised executive order which removed one nation from the list of majority-Muslim nations barred from entering the United States.

"The illogic of the Government's contentions is palpable. The notion that one can demonstrate animus toward any group of people only by targeting all of them at once is fundamentally flawed," US District Court Judge Derrick Watson wrote.

The revised ban was set to go into effect one minute after midnight on March 16. It removed Iraq from the list of banned countries, made an exception for refugees who were members of “persecuted religious minorities” in their home country and exempted immigrants with green cards and visas. The original order barred citizens from seven countries from entering the U.S. for 90 days, all refugees for 120 days and indefinitely halted refugees from Syria.

Judge Watson wrote that targeting specific countries "likewise targets Islam."