Bob Ferguson

My prayers are with the families of those lost in this tragedy.

These are systemic vulnerabilities that predictably produce recurring damage under foreseeable conditions.

I was surprised how limited that was, and even those limited dollars, how narrow it is to get those dollars out the door.

We’re looking at ways to look into the next disaster, which unfortunately someday that’s going to come, to see if we can improve that in some way.

Our goal is to make sure that everybody who’s impacted by the flood realizes this is going on.

We do not expect disruption to our operations at Seattle-Tacoma international airport through the Thanksgiving travel week.

changing the maps would be all but impossible.

the public would likely face severe consequences if the CDC becomes a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science.

The Trump administration's cruel immigration policies now extend to individuals fighting forest fires.

We look forward to protecting Washington kids from sexual abuse in the face of this 'investigation' from the Trump Administration.

If you've eaten chicken in the last decade, this conspiracy touched your wallet and cost middle-class and low-income Washington families more money to put food on their table.

We have an administration, we have a White House where the left hand doesn't know what the right hand's doing.

The clear point here, though, is that authority is not unlimited. The President still has to follow the constitution.

The executive orders signed yesterday does not grandfather in the more than 2,000 kids that have already been separated from their parents.

The courts have just look at the harm done to people in my state and Brian's state of Maryland and others that the harm is so great, that they're not going to allow it to go forward while we proceed on the merits.

the federal government is arguing, their lawyers are arguing, the president is arguing that no court can examine what the president is doing. And that is not the law.

the language is virtually identical. So as a result while the new ban has narrowed the scope of people impacted by it, those provisions still are in place and they still negatively impact the people of my state.

it is entirely appropriate. It happens all the time in courts across the country that you are allowed to look behind the motivation behind any particular action.

essentially, that's exactly right. And you don't have to take my word for that, just look at the very words that Donald Trump said when he was campaigning for president.

the motivation truly behind this, at least one part of it, was the Muslim ban.

the bottom line really from our perspective is that on many of the key aspects of our litigation that we brought over a month ago, that this is essentially capitulation by President Trump and his administration.

there's no question in my mind that the president realized that the original executive order was indefensible and frankly four federal judges agreed with that.

I do not take suing the president lightly. And I twice sued the Obama administration, I've now sued the Trump administration, so I have some experience. All successful so far, I might add.

I hope that the President and his administration is taking away a very hard-earned lesson from this experience, which is, if you're going to draft an executive order, do it with care, do it with scrutiny, and make sure it's constitutional.

Many businesses in our state, the universities that we represent feel very strongly that this executive order has done great harm to them, to their employees, to their students.