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More from tonight's East Potomac ruling: the order may put President Trump's Nov. 15 start for construction on the golf course renovation out of reach.
Judge Reyes is requiring 10 business days' written advance notice before the golf course can close — in whole or in part — and before any irreversible change to the park's landforms, vegetation, course design, hydrology, pathways or structures.
Trump announced Oct. 18 on Truth Social the course would close to play Nov. 15 and that restoration work would begin that day. The DOJ has to file that notice in the next few days for the date the president set to legally happen.
BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from cutting down any more trees at East Potomac Golf Links — with about four hours to spare before her earlier order expired at midnight.
Judge Ana Reyes granted a preliminary injunction Monday night barring the Interior Department and National Park Service from cutting, felling or "otherwise damaging or impairing" any tree in East Potomac Park without a court order. It also bars staging equipment inside a tree's root zone, which effectively halts site work.
Roughly 300 trees were slated to come down. President Trump has planned a massive tear down and renovation of the historic public course.
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JUST IN: Judge Reyes has granted a preliminary injunction in the DC golf course case. The Trump administration is indefinitely barred from chopping more trees. They also must provide 10 days' notice before closing or making any "irreversible modification" to the course.
BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from cutting down any more trees at East Potomac Golf Links — with about four hours to spare before her earlier order expired at midnight.
Judge Ana Reyes granted a preliminary injunction Monday night barring the Interior Department and National Park Service from cutting, felling or "otherwise damaging or impairing" any tree in East Potomac Park without a court order. It also bars staging equipment inside a tree's root zone, which effectively halts site work.
Roughly 300 trees were slated to come down. President Trump has planned a massive tear down and renovation of the historic public course.
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New footage obtained by TMZ shows Britt McHenry -- a U.S. State Department press advisor -- tossing a drink at someone in the crowd at last night’s Washington Wizards game
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Amazon’s Loudoun data center reversal: How the deal came together, and why some supervisors are wary…
Leaders call it a turning point in the data center debate, but some say the move will cost the county long-term.
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A deputy chief of staff told a federal judge he only learned about the 2019 report the government says justifies the cutting, weeks before he ordered it carried out. wusa9.com/article/news/legal…
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A federal judge hearing testimony about President Donald Trump’s plans to redevelop a Washington golf course is expressing deep skepticism over the government’s... wusa9.com/article/news/local…
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Dispatch from another marathon hearing on the DC golf course. Here’s a dispatch from seven hours inside Judge Ana Reyes’ courtroom.
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Looks like what runners and cyclists feared could come true: Trump’s plans for a new golf course at East Potomac Park seem to eliminate the existing three-mile roads that circles the island. It’s a popular destination for running, riding, and driving access to Hains Point.
New: Trump says that East Potomac Golf Course will close on Nov 15 for the redesign by Tom Fazio.
“Restoration work will begin on the Fazio Design on November 15th, when the old Course will be closed to play. The new Course will be opened in approximately 15 months.”
This comes as there is a heated legal dispute right now about whether the government can redesign the course.
The Justice Department is moving to disqualify Judge Ana Reyes from the East Potomac golf course case — calling her conduct "nothing short of egregious" and her "histrionics" proof "she is no longer impartial."
The motion is signed by the No. 3 official at DOJ - Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward.
At issue: President Trump's plan to remake the historic public course — and the hundreds of trees the Park Service is cutting down there.
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NEW: The Trump administration is asking a federal judge to cancel Monday’s East Potomac Golf hearing — arguing she violated “bedrock separation of powers principles” by compelling two Interior officials to testify on a federal holiday about hundreds of trees cut down by the National Park Service.
“The Court should end the drama now.”
Preservation groups are suing to stop Trump's planned redevelopment of the historic course.
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NEW: More trees were cut at East Potomac than first reported.
About 529 trees were cut at East Potomac Golf Links in a single day, according to a Justice Department email filed in court today. The figure given in court Monday was about 430.
Plaintiffs say that number covered only one of two zones cut on Saturday.
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Judge blocks further tree cutting at East Potomac Golf, as DC Government refuses to fast-track Trump’s golf course overhaul.
Court filings reveal the District rejected a National Park Service request to speed up its historic review to expedite the massive renovation of the historic course.
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NEW: NPS Deputy Director Frank Lands testified under oath - order to start cutting hundreds of trees at East Potomac originated with Greg Wischer - deputy chief of staff to Interior Secretary Burgum - who was also with Trump when he toured course in June about planned overhaul.