The Obama administration is putting in its primetime player to tackle the legal battle over the Washington Redskins name: Hit the showers, United States Patent and Trademark Office. It’s time for the Department of Justice to get under center.

After the USPTO’s decision to cancel the trademark of the controversial team name last year, the franchise filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the decision. Earlier this year, the DOJ indicated it would intervene on behalf of the USPTO in that lawsuit, and on Monday, it made good on that promise.

In a court filing, DOJ lawmade the case that the team’s trademark of the name is not fully protected under the First Amendment because it is commercial speech, according to the Washington Times.

“Not only do trademarks function only minimally as a vehicle for expression, but trademark registration also involves the necessary participation of the government in approving that registration, which confers relaxed First Amendment review even when combined with the speech of a private party,” the department argued.

The Obama administration’s opposition to the name comes as no surprise given past public objections raised by the president and other leading officials. In 2013, President Obama told the Associated Press, “I’d think about changing [the name]” if he knew it offended people. Attorney general Eric Holder took a stronger stance, saying that “the name ought to be changed.”

Interior secretary Sally Jewell, on the other hand, said that while she found it “surprising that in this day and age, the name is not different,” the name is admittedly not a major source of concern to the American Indian tribes and groups with which she regularly meets.