Judge Challenges DOJ Over East Potomac

Judge Ana Reyes said she was inclined to extend her halt on tree clearing at East Potomac Golf Links, after more than 400 trees were cut during the lawsuit. She said at a lengthy hearing that the government had acted in bad faith and that the timing was not coincidental. The public course sits on federal parkland in Washington, where a preservation group and local golfers sued to stop or limit Trump’s planned championship-style rebuild. Trump says InteriorDepartment of the InteriorU.S. federal executive department can renovate without outside approval and calls the course unsafe; plaintiffs say the project would cause irreversible harm and needs required review. Reyes had not issued a final decision.