A federal appellate court refused late Friday to stay the proceedings in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s push to put a question about citizenship status on the 2020 U.S. Census.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied a Department of Justice request to stay the proceedings before U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman of the Southern District of New York. The panel of Judges John Walker Jr. and Raymond Lohier Jr., with U.S. District Judge William Pauley III of the Southern District of New York sitting by designation, denied the request in a two-sentence order.