A Washington federal trial judge’s ruling Tuesday against the Trump administration’s move to end a program that protects certain immigrants from deportation is getting a fair amount of attention for its substance and for the fact the decision was written by a Republican-appointed judge.

U.S. District Judge John Bates, appointed to the bench by George W. Bush in 2001, called the termination of the program—Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, commonly known as DACA—unlawful. Bates, however, gave the government 90 days to figure out a new way to wind down the program. Two other federal judges issued rulings in support of DACA in recent months, and those decisions are on appeal. Bates was the first Republican-nominated judge to smack the Trump administration.