The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Tuesday has denied the request by Trump administration to lift multiple lower court judges’ nationwide injunction on President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order.

The request was denied by Chief U.S. Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., Chief Judge David Barron, who was former President Barack Obama’s first acting assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. (2009-2010).

“We do not address the government’s appeal of the preliminary injunction itself,” Barron concluded in the 32-page ruling Tuesday. “We address only the government’s stay motion, which asks us to decide whether the District Court’s order granting a preliminary injunction should be stayed while this court takes up an interlocutory appeal of that injunction.

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