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... Over 10 months since the relevant government agencies were ordered to start a re-evaluation of the permitting process, testimony revealed that they had barely begun to develop the concept of a review. As such, the only reason they could offer in defense of the suspension consisted of Trump's executive order and a Department of the Interior memo implementing it.

"Whatever level of explanation is required when deviating from longstanding agency practice," Judge Saris wrote, "this is not it." ...