" TMT contested hearing is about holding people in power accountable to rules. Put that in the
context of a Trump presidency. That should help you understand."
Come on Milner, really?
Trump isn't in office yet.  It should be put in the context of an Obama presidency you mean.  Obama has been the King issuing executive orders right and left, sending troops back into Iraq as "advisors" and now we have thousands there again.  Obama has chosen to completely ignore immigration laws and tried to allow tens of thousands of illegal entrants to remain in the U.S., which a court struck down. 
The real story will be after the contested case hearing is finished.  If found not to have shown sufficient cause to stop the TMT, will opponents abide by the decision?  Of course not!  They will just say that "The Kingdom still lives", or the "State doesn't have jurisdiction over them" or some other delusional ideas and protest the site, another Standing Rock.
And radical Tulsi Gabbard will be in the mix.