Photo courtesy Paul Zukerberg.

Undeterred by a D.C. Superior Court judge’s ruling that there will be no attorney general election in the April democratic primary, lawyer and former At-Large candidate Paul Zukerberg has filed an appeal.

Last week, District Court Superior Judge Laura A. Cordero denied Zukerberg’s preliminary injunction against the D.C. Council for delaying an attorney general election until 2018. In her decision, Judge Cordero wrote that “the plaintiff [did] not ‘clearly [demonstrate],’ much less [make] a ‘strong showing’ that he will be in danger of suffering irreparable harm if the attorney general election is not held in 2014.” Zukerberg’s attorney, Gary Thompson, also argued that the Council’s bill to delay the election until 2018 is not the will of D.C. residents, to which Cordero ruled that he Zukerberg “does not and cannot legally represent anyone’s interest other than his own.”

But Zukerberg disagrees. In a release, he says “over 76 perent of D.C. voters approved the ballot referendum in favor of an elected attorney general. Because the trial court’s ruling limits the right of D.C. citizens to vote, the legally responsible thing to do is to see that our highest court decides this issue.”

Thompson and Zukerberg filed an appeal yesterday with the D.C. Court of Appeals to review the judge’s ruling “on an emergency or expedited basis,” since the democratic primary ballot Zukerberg is fast approaching. Of course, if his appeal is denied, there’s still the chance that a partisan attorney general election could be held in November’s general election.