Following angry tweets all day from President Trump, the U.S. Justice Department filed notice Saturday evening of a formal appeal of a Seattle judge’s temporary restraining order which put the administration"s immigration order on hold.
Ironically, the appeal hit just minutes after Trump tweeted...
Why aren"t the lawyers looking at and using the Federal Court decision in Boston, which is at conflict with ridiculous lift ban decision?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2017
The appeal made official what the Trump White House had promised on Friday night.
As AJC reports, the official notice of appeal was a barebones legal document filed by the Trump Administration.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the defendants Donald Trump, in his official capacity as President of the United States; United States Department of Homeland Security; John F. Kelly, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; Rex W. Tillerson, in his official capacity as Secretary of State; and the United States of America hereby appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from the February 3, 2017 Order (ECF No. 52) enjoining and restraining enforcement of portions of the January 27, 2017 Executive Order on Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.
This legal fight will now shift to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals – an appellate court with a long legal history that shades to the liberal side.
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