President Donald Trump criticized the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals over its ruling on the case involving young immigrants from deportation.
Trump said during a meeting with the nation's governors Mondayt that, "nothing's as bad as the 9th Circuit."
He compained that "every single case filed against us is in the 9th Circuit" and that, "We lose, we lose, we lose and then we do fine in the Supreme Court."
Federal judges in San Francisco and New York have issued injunctions ordering the Trump administration to keep the program protecting "Dreamers" in place while courts consider legal challenges to Trump's termination of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
The administration wanted to bypass the federal appeals court in San Francisco and go directly to the Supreme Court to decide the program's fate, but the Supreme Court declined to intervene.
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