“This complaint lays out in a careful way the laws that apply and how they’ve been violated here,” Matthew Sanders, an assistant professor of law and co-director of the Environmental Law Clinic at Stanford Law School, told USA TODAY Sports.

Either side could possibly appeal the court’s order, asking the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to step in, according to Sanders, the Stanford professor. But he also said such an appeal would face very tight timing.

Sanders said the complaint helps demonstrate the Trump administration has undertaken a series of actions similar to those involving the White House ballroom and the Kennedy Center.

“The courts may as a result of that just be inherently more skeptical of things that the administration is doing,” Sanders said.