of Congress and passing an extended public comments period. She stated that her decision to block the change of rule was because there was no environmental analysis performed and therefore the Interior Department "ignored (without sufficient explanation) substantial information in the administrative record concerning environmental impacts" of the rule. Kollar-Kotelly presided over the Espionage Act case against Dr. Stephen Jin-Woo Kim after he told a reporter that North Korea would test its nuclear program. The case was controversial because it was one of a string of unprecedented uses of the Espionage Act against officials for speaking with journalists . On March 7, 2016, Kollar-Kotelly denied a requested preliminary injunction against Washington, D.C.'s discretionary issue of concealed carry permits, thereby allowing DC police chief Cathy Lanier to continue denying concealed carry permits to law-abiding citizens in most cases. In 2017, Kollar-Kotelly is presiding over ACLU v. Trump and Pence. On October 30, 2017, Kollar-Kotelly blocked the enforcement of President Donald Trump's ban on transgender individuals from serving in the military. References Sources 1943 births Living people 20th-century American judges 20th-century American women judges 21st-century American judges 21st-century American women judges American people of Hungarian descent Columbus School of Law alumni Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School alumni Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia Judges presiding over Guantanamo habeas petitions Judges of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Lawyers from New York City United States Department of Justice lawyers United States district court judges appointed by Bill Clinton