An environmental organization and a group of private citizens, claiming that environmental laws are being ignored or misapplied, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to halt construction of the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, Chicago, until their appeal by a federal circuit court is decided.

“The groundbreaking construction and excavation activities will result in serious harms to the environment and historic resources in Jackson Park, thereby causing permanent, irreparable harm to applicants and the community at large in the absence of a writ of injunction pending appeal,” Michael Rachlis of Chicago’s Rachlis Duff & Peel, wrote in the emergency application filed with Justice Amy Coney Barrett in the case Protect Our Parks v. Buttigieg.

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