The Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has issued an administrative stay of a judge’s order blocking wholesale changes at the CFPB.

The three-judge panel said the administrative stay means the CFPB is returned to the state it was in before U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued an order blocking the possible dismantling of the CFPB.

That order came in a suit filed by the National Treasury Employees Union, several other groups and a pastor.

Contending that the Trump Administration still intends to dismantle the CFPB, Jackson had issued a temporary injunction prohibiting the administration from firing employees without cause, prohibiting it from enforcing the stop work order or forcing employees to take administrative leave, and requiring it to provide employees with the means to perform their statutorily mandated functions.

She further asserted that the Trump Administration’s actions “were taken in complete disregard for the decision Congress made 15 years ago, which was spurred by the devastating financial crisis of 2008 and embodied in the United States Code, that the agency must exist and that it must perform specific functions to protect the borrowing public.”

We previously wrote about Judge Jackson’s order here and you can listen to our podcast about the order here.

The appeals court said that the stay is designed to give the appeals court time to consider the Trump Administration’s emergency motion for a stay pending appeal.

“The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” the panel said in its order.