While President Donald Trump’s second executive order restricting travel is still on court-ordered hold, it continues to work its way through multiple courts.

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A ruling is expected in a Virginia court after hearings were held Tuesday. And in Hawaii, where a district court issued a temporary restraining order hours before the executive order was to take effect March 15, the state is asking for a more permanent hold. A preliminary injunction would halt implementation of the order while the court reviews its constitutionality.

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“It does tend to undercut any claim that the executive order is responding to some clear and present danger to national security. If that were the case, it’s hard to imagine that the government would sit around for days and days before trying to get the order implemented,” wrote immigration lawyer Pamela Karlan in response to a VOA query. Karlan is a professor of public interest law at Stanford Law School.