Judge Orders Trump Administration to Answer for Tree Removals at D.C. Golf Course

[Hume]

A federal judge on Monday excoriated the Trump administration for ripping up hundreds of mature trees at a Washington golf course over the holiday weekend, even though she had directed officials to disclose any major changes before work was started.

In an explosive, four-hour emergency hearing, Judge Ana C. Reyes of the Federal District Court in Washington ordered a one-day halt to any more tree removal at East Potomac Golf Links, and said she would continue proceedings on Tuesday.

Judge Orders Trump Administration to Answer for Tree Removals at D.C. Golf Course

During a four-hour hearing, a federal judge demanded answers from the Trump administration about who authorized the removal of hundreds of trees at the East Potomac Golf Links.

www.nytimes.com

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Why is a judge even involved in this?

 

[QP!]

Why is a judge even involved in this?

Because the Trump Admin has been breaking laws when it comes to doing things with PUBLIC PROPERTY that the Executive specifically and legally has no right to do without certain processing, often including getting permission from Congress, who ultimately is responsible for many of them.

The lawless Trump admin understands that a Court process happening after an action means they can break any law and just do it, and by the time it gets to court it is too late, just as Justice Roberts said about the Trump admin tearing down of the East Wing as "likely illlegal", "but too late" to do anything about it now.

So judges realize they must give very specific orders to the Trump admin to not do certain actions first that will be too late to rule upon later, as they know they are lawless.

 

[Poor Richard Saunders]

Why is a judge even involved in this?

Because the government told that judge they wouldn't do any renovations on the golf course without notifying her and the plaintiffs prior to that work. Then they removed hundreds of trees over a holiday weekend. It seems the Trump administration lied to the court.

 

[Crepitus]

A federal judge on Monday excoriated the Trump administration for ripping up hundreds of mature trees at a Washington golf course over the holiday weekend, even though she had directed officials to disclose any major changes before work was started.

In an explosive, four-hour emergency hearing, Judge Ana C. Reyes of the Federal District Court in Washington ordered a one-day halt to any more tree removal at East Potomac Golf Links, and said she would continue proceedings on Tuesday.

Judge Orders Trump Administration to Answer for Tree Removals at D.C. Golf Course

During a four-hour hearing, a federal judge demanded answers from the Trump administration about who authorized the removal of hundreds of trees at the East Potomac Golf Links.

www.nytimes.com

How many times does the orange shit stain get to ignore court orders before there are consequences?

 

[Lionfish]

Was the bowelwomans poor partner involved? Word is, he is an expert with a chainsaw.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Because the Trump Admin has been breaking laws when it comes to doing things with PUBLIC PROPERTY that the Executive specifically and legally has no right to do without certain processing, often including getting permission from Congress, who ultimately is responsible for many of them.

The lawless Trump admin understands that a Court process happening after an action means they can break any law and just do it, and by the time it gets to court it is too late, just as Justice Roberts said about the Trump admin tearing down of the East Wing as "likely illlegal", "but too late" to do anything about it now.

So judges realize they must give very specific orders to the Trump admin to not do certain actions first that will be too late to rule upon later, as they know they are lawless.

In this case, you are full of shit. This particular judge hates Trump. She has no business sticking her nose into this. The NPS was trying to restore that particular course to its long historical look as a "open links style" course. They were also removing non-native and invasive species from the course. This wasn't some rash Trump decision, but rather the NPS doing its job.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.289401/gov.uscourts.dcd.289401.74.1.pdf?ftag=MSF0951a18

Yes, the NPS had a filed plan calling for the removal of these trees, and based on the historical nature of the course, their plan fit with that.

Another day, another shitty Autopen appointed judge making shit up as she goes.

 

[Cypress]

Why is a judge even involved in this?

Because it's federal public land that doesn't belong to Trump and isn't his to do with as he pleases

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Because it's federal public land that doesn't belong to Trump and isn't his to do with as he pleases

So? That doesn't require a judge to be making decisions on its use.

 

[QP!]

She has no business sticking her nose into this. The NPS was trying to restore that particular course to its long historical look as a "open links style" course. They were also removing non-native and invasive species from the course. This wasn't some rash Trump decision, but rather the NPS doing its job.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.289401/gov.uscourts.dcd.289401.74.1.pdf?ftag=MSF0951a18
Yes, the NPS had a filed plan calling for the removal of these trees, and based on the historical nature of the course, their plan fit with that.

No you are full of hist.

The issue is not what they want to do with the course (clear trees, restore grounds, etc) and IS ABOUT the REQUIRED LEGAL PROCESS THAT NEEDS TO BE FOLLOWED BEFORE ANY ACTIONS ARE TAKEN.

The Judge's intervention on that is MANDATORY once this became the issue of a lawsuit. No Judge can refuse it.

• The lawsuit (DC Preservation League v. U.S. Department of the Interior) exists because the NPS is legally bound to comply with the National Historic Preservation Act (Section 106) and court-ordered consultation processes before altering historic properties. [1, 2]

The executive branch bypassed mandatory legal steps or violated a specific court order to consult with preservation groups before letting chainsaws on the property. Enforcing procedural laws and holding government agencies to court orders is the core constitutional duty of a federal judge, not judicial activism. [1]

 

[QP!]

So? That doesn't require a judge to be making decisions on its use.

The fucking lawsuit when Trump and his admin are ignoring the very clear laws and rules of restoring the land ABSO FUCKIN LUTELY require a judge to making decisions.

 

[Hume]

How many times does the orange shit stain get to ignore court orders before there are consequences?

He will bulldoze the court house.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

No you are full of hist.

The issue is not what they want to do with the course (clear trees, restore grounds, etc) and IS ABOUT the REQUIRED LEGAL PROCESS THAT NEEDS TO BE FOLLOWED BEFORE ANY ACTIONS ARE TAKEN.

The Judge's intervention on that is MANDATORY once this became the issue of a lawsuit. No Judge can refuse it.

• The lawsuit (DC Preservation League v. U.S. Department of the Interior) exists because the NPS is legally bound to comply with the National Historic Preservation Act (Section 106) and court-ordered consultation processes before altering historic properties. [1, 2]

The executive branch bypassed mandatory legal steps or violated a specific court order to consult with preservation groups before letting chainsaws on the property. Enforcing procedural laws and holding government agencies to court orders is the core constitutional duty of a federal judge, not judicial activism. [1]

You didn't read the filing. The NPS complied with all of that. What had the plaintiff's panties in a twist was that in reverting to the historical look of the course, cutting down hundreds of trees was necessary. The judge just sided with them out of animus for Trump and his administration.

 

[QP!]

You didn't read the filing. The NPS complied with all of that. What had the plaintiff's panties in a twist was that in reverting to the historical look of the course, cutting down hundreds of trees was necessary. The judge just sided with them out of animus for Trump and his administration.

Your summary is highly inaccurate and once again you get almost everything wrong Terry.

1. The NPS Did Not Comply With Court Orders

• FACT: U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes explicitly ordered the Trump administration to provide the court with advanced notification before making any major structural alterations to the course. Specifically, she ruled that the government had to notify the court before cutting down more than 10 trees. [1, 2]
• What the NPS actually did: At 4:55 PM on Friday—right as the federal holiday weekend was starting—the administration filed a notice. Roughly 12 hours later, at dawn on Saturday morning, crews arrived with chainsaws and chopped down 430 mature trees before the plaintiffs or the judge could even review the filing. [1, 2, 3, 4]

2. The Conflict is Over "The Washington National Plan," Not Landscape History

• The FACT: The D.C. Preservation League filed this lawsuit because the Trump-Vance administration announced a separate project dubbed the "Washington National Plan." This plan aims to overhaul the affordable public course and replace it with an exclusive, high-end championship course intended to host professional tournaments and private events for wealthy golfers. [1, 2, 3]
• The plaintiffs argue the administration is rushing through irreversible tree-clearing under the guise of "routine maintenance" specifically to fast-track Trump's luxury golf project while bypassing mandatory environmental and historic-preservation reviews. [1]

3. The Judge's Action is Based on Broken Trust, Not "Animus"

• The FACT: Judge Reyes (who previously declined to block the administration's plans in July as long as they followed the rules) was furious because the Department of Justice and the NPS actively maneuvered to evade judicial oversight. [1, 2]

During an explosive, four-hour emergency hearing, Judge Reyes stated that the government's underhanded weekend tactics had cost them "all of its credibility with me in this case." She lambasted the government's lawyers, stating: “I trusted you all not to do precisely what you have done.” She ordered an immediate halt to the tree cutting and warned that if her order was violated by even "two seconds," she would initiate formal contempt of court proceedings against the administration. [1, 2]

 

[Into the Night]

Because the Trump Admin has been breaking laws when it comes to doing things with PUBLIC PROPERTY that the Executive specifically and legally has no right to do without certain processing, often including getting permission from Congress, who ultimately is responsible for many of them.

What law, Kewpie?

The lawless Trump admin

Trump has broken no law, Kewpie.

understands that a Court process happening after an action means they can break any law and just do it, and by the time it gets to court it is too late, just as Justice Roberts said about the Trump admin tearing down of the East Wing as "likely illlegal", "but too late" to do anything about it now.

By what authority, Kewpie?

So judges realize they must give very specific orders to the Trump admin to not do certain actions first that will be too late to rule upon later, as they know they are lawless.

No law was broken, Kewpie.

 

[Into the Night]

Because the government told that judge they wouldn't do any renovations on the golf course without notifying her and the plaintiffs prior to that work.

Not required, Poorboy.

Then they removed hundreds of trees over a holiday weekend.

So?

It seems the Trump administration lied to the court.

No court required, Poorboy.

 

[Crepitus]

He will bulldoze the court house.

Sadly you may be correct.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Your summary is highly inaccurate and once again you get almost everything wrong Terry.

1. The NPS Did Not Comply With Court Orders

• FACT: U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes explicitly ordered the Trump administration to provide the court with advanced notification before making any major structural alterations to the course. Specifically, she ruled that the government had to notify the court before cutting down more than 10 trees. [1, 2]
• What the NPS actually did: At 4:55 PM on Friday—right as the federal holiday weekend was starting—the administration filed a notice. Roughly 12 hours later, at dawn on Saturday morning, crews arrived with chainsaws and chopped down 430 mature trees before the plaintiffs or the judge could even review the filing. [1, 2, 3, 4]

2. The Conflict is Over "The Washington National Plan," Not Landscape History

• The FACT: The D.C. Preservation League filed this lawsuit because the Trump-Vance administration announced a separate project dubbed the "Washington National Plan." This plan aims to overhaul the affordable public course and replace it with an exclusive, high-end championship course intended to host professional tournaments and private events for wealthy golfers. [1, 2, 3]
• The plaintiffs argue the administration is rushing through irreversible tree-clearing under the guise of "routine maintenance" specifically to fast-track Trump's luxury golf project while bypassing mandatory environmental and historic-preservation reviews. [1]

3. The Judge's Action is Based on Broken Trust, Not "Animus"

• The FACT: Judge Reyes (who previously declined to block the administration's plans in July as long as they followed the rules) was furious because the Department of Justice and the NPS actively maneuvered to evade judicial oversight. [1, 2]

During an explosive, four-hour emergency hearing, Judge Reyes stated that the government's underhanded weekend tactics had cost them "all of its credibility with me in this case." She lambasted the government's lawyers, stating: “I trusted you all not to do precisely what you have done.” She ordered an immediate halt to the tree cutting and warned that if her order was violated by even "two seconds," she would initiate formal contempt of court proceedings against the administration. [1, 2]

To Grok or whatever AI that's from. As usual, a thoroughly shallow take on this.

The judge didn't block the NPS planning, simply because she couldn't. She instead demanded the NPS run any major work on the project through her.

This is an absurd position. Since when did district court judges become part of the executive branch making management decisions. If the NPS plan was valid, it didn't need some judge rubber stamping it or being involved in the actual process of carrying out the work. Worse, this plan dates back to 2019 before Trump took office the first time and she wasn't even a federal judge at the time.

Nothing in the NPS plan, once the court was notified, and only because a plaintiff had filed what amounts to a frivolous lawsuit to stop it, required this judge's involvement. In fact, a reasonable and unbiased judge would have tossed the complaint out and been done with it.

The plan, which I presented above as presented to the court was about returning the course to its historical look as an open fairway course not clogged with trees. The NPS was trying to maintain the historical and long-time look of the course. Also, this clearly isn't "Trump's plan." It is the NPS doing their job and the plaintiffs and this idiot judge pinning the blame on Trump for something they disagree with.

The plaintiffs on the other hand made up some psychobabble about this being so the course could be used for tournaments--not a bad idea as this would give the course more public exposure and bring in revenues.

The judge shouldn't even be involved. The plaintiff's case is frivolous and based partially on conjecture, partially on outright lies. That aside, this judge clearly does hate Trump. She is a radical Leftist and militant LGBTPDQRSTUV+- whatever. Her background is fighting for illegal aliens, the Green agenda, and against big pharma in actions designed to move towards universal government run healthcare.

MSN

 

[QP!]

To Grok or whatever AI that's from. As usual, a thoroughly shallow take on this.

The judge didn't block the NPS planning, simply because she couldn't. She instead demanded the NPS run any major work on the project through her.

This is an absurd position. Since when did district court judges become part of the executive branch making management decisions. If the NPS plan was valid, it didn't need some judge rubber stamping it or being involved in the actual process of carrying out the work. Worse, this plan dates back to 2019 before Trump took office the first time and she wasn't even a federal judge at the time.

Nothing in the NPS plan, once the court was notified, and only because a plaintiff had filed what amounts to a frivolous lawsuit to stop it, required this judge's involvement. In fact, a reasonable and unbiased judge would have tossed the complaint out and been done with it.

The plan, which I presented above as presented to the court was about returning the course to its historical look as an open fairway course not clogged with trees. The NPS was trying to maintain the historical and long-time look of the course. Also, this clearly isn't "Trump's plan." It is the NPS doing their job and the plaintiffs and this idiot judge pinning the blame on Trump for something they disagree with.

The plaintiffs on the other hand made up some psychobabble about this being so the course could be used for tournaments--not a bad idea as this would give the course more public exposure and bring in revenues.

The judge shouldn't even be involved. The plaintiff's case is frivolous and based partially on conjecture, partially on outright lies. That aside, this judge clearly does hate Trump. She is a radical Leftist and militant LGBTPDQRSTUV+- whatever. Her background is fighting for illegal aliens, the Green agenda, and against big pharma in actions designed to move towards universal government run healthcare.

MSN

Once again you spew bullshit that does not follow what happened and you are completely misrepresenting why the judge stepped in. You need to take your Fox talking points elsewhere as they are failing, badly.

This isn’t about 'judicial activism' or political bias; it's about basic legal integrity and bad faith by the government.

The judge previously sided with the government and allowed them to proceed, under one strict condition: they had to give the court and the plaintiffs advance notice before cutting down more than 10 trees.

Instead of playing fair, the administration pulled a blatant stunt: they filed their court notice at 4:55 PM on a Friday right before a three-day federal holiday weekend. By dawn on Saturday morning—hours before anyone could even read the filing—crews were already on-site with chainsaws and leveled 430 mature trees.


The judge didn't intervene because she hates Trump or wants to manage a golf course. She intervened because the government actively tricked the court to evade legal oversight. As the judge herself stated during the emergency hearing, the government’s underhanded weekend tactics cost them 'all of its credibility with me in this case.'

You can't claim you 'complied' with a court process when you deliberately wait for the courthouse doors to lock on a holiday weekend to execute a massive, irreversible clear-cutting operation.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Once again you spew bullshit that does not follow what happened and you are completely misrepresenting why the judge stepped in. You need to take your Fox talking points elsewhere as they are failing, badly.

This isn’t about 'judicial activism' or political bias; it's about basic legal integrity and bad faith by the government.

Yes, it is judicial activism. The NPS had a plan in place to do this working on it for six years plus. They were finally ready to move forward when, last minute, a plaintiff files to stop them on bullshit grounds and shops a Trump hating judge to side with them.

The judge previously sided with the government and allowed them to proceed, under one strict condition: they had to give the court and the plaintiffs advance notice before cutting down more than 10 trees.

The court has no authority to be the manager of this project--NONE. This asshole of a judge has overstepped her authority. She is not part of the administration and has no legal standing to decide how the project will be carried out other than to rule on the basis of factual law. That is not what she's doing. She is micromanaging the project with that 10 tree bullshit.

Instead of playing fair, the administration pulled a blatant stunt: they filed their court notice at 4:55 PM on a Friday right before a three-day federal holiday weekend. By dawn on Saturday morning—hours before anyone could even read the filing—crews were already on-site with chainsaws and leveled 430 mature trees.

Good! The NPS has a solid plan and it should be carried out expeditiously and cost effectively. Fuck that asshole judge.

The judge didn't intervene because she hates Trump or wants to manage a golf course. She intervened because the government actively tricked the court to evade legal oversight. As the judge herself stated during the emergency hearing, the government’s underhanded weekend tactics cost them 'all of its credibility with me in this case.'

Yes she did. The plaintiffs were a last-minute attempt to stop the project. This judge obviously knew she couldn't just outright stop it so she did the next best thing: Throw obstacles in the path of progress. Why 10 trees and not 20? Why limit the number cut down but allow some to be cut down? This is nothing but a delay tactic.

You can't claim you 'complied' with a court process when you deliberately wait for the courthouse doors to lock on a holiday weekend to execute a massive, irreversible clear-cutting operation.

Again, this judge grossly overstepped her authority and is an asshole that should be ignored.