A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to give 48 hours' notice before beginning any work on President Donald Trump's planned arch.

According to a post by Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney, Judge Tanya Chutkan — an Obama appointee on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia who previously oversaw the federal election interference case against Trump — directed that her court receive advance notice before any work starts on the arch. She issued the order as she prepared to weigh a motion for a temporary restraining order to halt construction of the monument.

The notice requirement also follows the Supreme Court's decision allowing Trump's East Wing ballroom to be completed, and comes amid legal challenges to his D.C. golf course. In a Friday report, Politico legal reporter Josh Gerstein observed that Trump is deploying a legal "tush push" — pushing his projects most of the way through construction before they can be challenged in court, on the theory that courts cannot stop the administration from building what has already been built.

"Courts, I think, are now recognizing this as a very explicitly purposeful strategy," an anonymous lawyer who has faced the administration told Gerstein. "The question is: are they prepared to do something about it?"

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Thursday that the administration plans to begin excavation within the next two weeks to move the arch forward, according to reports.

However, three Vietnam War veterans asked Chutkan on Friday to block work from starting on the arch, the Washington Post reported. The veterans sought a temporary restraining order through an emergency filing and warned that the administration is trying to outrace the federal courts on the project, The Post noted.

Chutkan's order stated that the Trump administration "shall provide the court with 48 hours' notice before engaging in any activity on Memorial Circle other than on-site information gathering." Memorial Circle, the traffic circle on the Arlington, Virginia, side of the Arlington Memorial Bridge approach to the Lincoln Memorial, is the proposed site for the monument. The information-gathering carve-out was limited to searching for anything "regarding any archaeological resources that may be present at the site."

The dispute fits into a broader pattern of litigation over Trump's proposed changes to Washington's monumental core, where competing legal claims over federal land, historical preservation, and executive authority have increasingly moved through the courts in parallel with construction timelines.