In 2011, Ms. Sebelius overruled a decision by the Food and Drug Administration to allow the drug to be sold without a prescription to anyone. Instead, she required that the drug be kept behind the counter at pharmacies and sold without a prescription only to women 17 and older.

Last week, the F.D.A. approved a change in that rule that would allow women and girls 15 and older to buy the drug without a prescription. At a hearing last week, Judge Korman said that decision was politically motivated and intended to “sugarcoat” the government’s appeal. He indicated he believed the drug should be made more widely available.

Judge Korman’s rulings have been filled with harsh criticism of Ms. Sebelius and the administration’s legal efforts to defend her decision. Friday’s ruling on the request for a delay in the enforcement of his order was no exception.

The judge repeatedly accused the government of operating in bad faith and said the process of denying broad distribution of the drug had been “corrupted by political interference” for years. He said he did not believe that ordering Ms. Sebelius or the F.D.A. to re-examine their decisions would make any difference.

“The cause of the rejection of over-the-counter sale of levonorgestrel-based emergency contraceptives was the secretary of health and human services,” Judge Korman wrote. “She has not changed her position. A remand would thus be futile. More significantly, I have been there and done that.”

“Indeed, in my view, the defendants’ appeal is frivolous and is taken for the purpose of delay,” he wrote.

At one point in his ruling, Judge Korman notes that lawyers for the administration insist that allowing over-the-counter access to the drug for everyone while the government appeals the case would mean “uncertainty” for girls and women about whether they could get the drug.