Obama’s executive order immigration reform lost in court on Tuesday. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the Texas judge who issued an injunction. The injunction successfully prevented Obama’s immigration programs to go into effect.

According to The Hill, the appeals court ruled 2-1 that the order must stay in place.

The judges wrote:

because the government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its appeal of the injunction, we deny the motion for stay and the request to narrow the scope of the injunction.

By doing that the Courts just made it a lot harder to Obama to implement what has been seen as one of his signature programs of his second term.

Once President Obama passed sweeping immigration reform by executive action last year Texas and 25 other states filed a lawsuit challenging his actions. They argued the President exceeded his constitutional authority. They also said the programs he created would overburden education, motor-vehicle services, state healthcare and social services.

Republican National Committee spokeswoman, Ruth Guerra took lose in court as an opportunity to take a shot at Hillary Clinton. She said:

Today’s decision by the courts should come as no surprise to President Obama, who admitted over 22 times he didn’t have the legal authority to take this politically-motivated action or to Hillary Clinton who’d like to go further.

The White House on the other hand, slammed the judges saying they choose:

to misinterpret the facts and the law in denying the government’s request for a stay.

They continued to say:

The president’s actions . . . are squarely within the bounds of his authority, and they are the right thing to do for the country.

As for what the Justice Department plans to do next, they are thinking about possibly appealing to the full 5th Circuit or to the Supreme Court.