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Thousands of protesters spill onto 7th Street in San Francisco after President Donald Trump announced ending the President Barack Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Photo: Jason Doiy/ALM.[/caption] The Department of Justice plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court this week to weigh in on its rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, bypassing the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Last week, U.S. District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California temporarily blocked the Trump administration's rescission of the DACA policy. The DOJ filed a notice of appeal to the Ninth Circuit in that case Tuesday, but U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement the DOJ also wants the Supreme Court to rule on the merits of the case. He said it "defies both law and common sense" that a "single district court in San Francisco" could order the reinstallation of the DACA program. "We are now taking the rare step of requesting direct review on the merits of this injunction by the Supreme Court so that this issue may be resolved quickly and fairly for all the parties involved," Sessions said. The plaintiffs in the consolidated cases, who include the University of California system, are represented by a team of lawyers from Covington & Burling as well as Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, among others. The DOJ and President Donald Trump lambasted Alsup last week for his decision. Alsup's ruling follows several others that have been unfavorable to the Trump administration in the Northern California court and the Ninth Circuit, including decisions upholding injunctions against the third iteration of the travel ban executive order and the sanctuary cities executive order."It just shows everyone how broken and unfair our Court System is when the opposing side in a case (such as DACA) always runs to the 9th Circuit and almost always wins before being reversed by higher courts," the president tweeted last week.