Federal District Court Judge James Robart in Seattle denied a request from the Trump administration to postpone any further proceedings in his court over President Trump’s travel ban, while the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals considers whether to rehear the case before a larger panel of judges on February 13.

“I’m not prepared to slow this down,” Robart said, ruling from the bench.

President Trump’s travel ban will remain blocked, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday, February 9. Three federal appeals judges unanimously upheld the decision to block President Trump’s refugee and immigration ban.

The ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco means the travel ban cannot go into effect without further litigation.

“The Government has pointed to no evidence that an alien of the countries named in the Order has perpetrated a terrorist attack in the United States,” the three-member panel wrote. The three-member panel went on to say, “Rather than present evidence to explain the need for the Executive Order, the Government has taken the position that we must not review its decision at all. We disagree.”

President Trump responded in an all-caps Twitter post: “SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!”

President Trump’s presidential rival Hillary Clinton celebrated the decision, tweeting “3-0.”

This raises questions on how the upper courts will view his expansive use of executive power from the Oval Office on which he is anchoring the early weeks of his presidency.

According to the New York Post, the judges, who included one Republican said the states of Washington and Minnesota had shown that even temporary reinstatement of the ban would cause harm to their citizens.

President Trump wants to ban refugees from Syria indefinitely and refugees from six other countries plagued by terrorism: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen for 120 days. He also wants to bar immigrants and visitors to the US from those seven countries for 90 days.

The three judges who heard the government’s appeal were Democratic appointees William Canby and Michelle Friedland and GOP appointee Richard Clifton.

The seven counties that challenged the ban before the federal court ruling were California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Virginia and Washington.

“I applaud the federal appeals court for blocking President Trump’s travel ban. It was highly unethical for our president to ban refugees and citizens from seven Muslim majority countries. Jemmott went on to say, “I also applaud GOP judge appointee Richard Clifton for blocking the travel ban. This shows that politicians and judges do not have to agree with other constituents in their party,” said Jolie Jemmott, a sophomore nursing major from Philadelphia.