Hawaii has been clear about its intent to fight President Donald Trump's revised travel ban from the get-go, and now, it's following through. A federal judge in the state issued a nationwide temporary restraining order on the ban right before it was scheduled to take place on Thursday.

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The case was brought by Ismail Elshikh, who said Trump's revised ban would prevent his mother-in-law to travel from Syria to visit the family.

"The Court declines to stay this ruling or hold it in abeyance should an emergency appeal of this order be filed," U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson said, according to ABC News. Judge Watson added that Trump's past comments show "significant and unrebutted evidence of religious of religious animus driving the promulgation" of the ban.

Some have speculated that Trump adviser Stephen Miller gave the court reason to strike down the order after Miller said that the new ban would have the "same basic policy outcome."

"To be sure, the new executive order covers fewer people than the old one," Neal Katyal, one of the lead attorneys for Hawaii, said in an interview with CNN earlier this month. "[But it] suffers from the same constitutional and statutory defects."

From: Esquire US