The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday said it will ask the Supreme Court to overturn a judge's ruling last week that blocked President Donald Trump's move to end a program that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children.
The Trump administration will file an appeal of the judge's injunction directly with the conservative-majority Supreme Court as well as seek to appeal the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision, the department said.
The Republican president in September rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program put in place in 2012 by his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, effective in March. A variety of Democratic state attorneys general, organizations and individuals challenged Trump's action in multiple federal courts.
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