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    By his count, Washington attorney general hasn't lost a case against Trump yet

    by Richard Read, Los Angeles Times Oct 08, 2019 5 minutes

    SEATTLE - When President Donald Trump announced his original Muslim travel ban on a Friday in early 2017, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson spurred his deputies on a weekend blitz so his state could be the first to challenge it.

    "'If at all humanly possible, we need to file the suit on Monday,'" Ferguson recalls telling his team. "I didn't want there to be one business day that went by when the people of my state would think I thought that the travel ban was OK."

    Almost three years later, Ferguson, a chess whiz and obsessive scorekeeper, remains one of the nation's most activist Democratic state attorneys general, suing the administration 50 times to date. He picks his fights, trailing his California counterpart, Xavier Becerra,

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