Because there are a set number of days for the court to act.
The judge can ignore the order and subject himself to contempt.
He can appeal the to entire slate of the appeals court.
He can dismiss, as instructed.
Those are the options. He has until the 16th to do any of them. There really is not anything else he can do.
I thought he can’t appeal but wilks can.
I agree. He has to exhaust process at the Circuit Court. After that, he can petition SCOTUS.