A federal appeals court has reinstated the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law barring openly gay men and women from the armed forces. On Wednesday, a three-judge panel granted the Obama administration’s request to stay an injunction issued against the ban last week. The stay will remain in place while the court weighs the administration’s challenge to last month’s ruling that the ban is unconstitutional. The move comes just one day after the Pentagon said it would respect the ban’s reversal and accept openly gay and lesbian recruits. Though it claims to oppose the ban, the White House pushed for its reinstatement because it wants the Pentagon to first complete an internal review.