While granting the stay for 7 days, Judge Vinson ordered the Administration to seek an EXPEDITED appeal, either to the 11th Circuit OR to the SCOTUS. An EXPEDITED appeal is the last thing this Administration wants.
An appeal that is not expedited can take months and months and months, a good year or so. An EXPEDITED appeal can be handled quite quickly, and a decision made that moves the case along to the SCOTUS much sooner than a regular appeal.
The one week stay they were granted with that critical caveat has cost the Administration months of time they’d hoped to use for delay. This case could (not saying it will) be at SCOTUS in a month or two, assuming the Administration choose the intermediate step of the Court of Appeals. A losing party at the appellate level has 90 days to file with SCOTUS, but given the way this particular case is going, they may be ordered again to expedite any SCOTUS appeal.
VA tried to get its case expedited and DOJ flatly refused. Now, in the FL case, the Administration has NO choice.
“Now, in the FL case, the Administration has NO choice”
Sure they do. They ignored his original ruling....They’ll ignore this ruling.