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A federal judge on Monday said she was “furious” with the Trump administration’s move over the weekend to cut down at least 430 trees from a Washington, DC, public golf course that President Donald Trump is seeking to renovate.

A federal judge on Monday said she was “furious” with the Trump administration’s move over the weekend to cut down at least 430 trees from a Washington, DC, public golf course that President Donald Trump is seeking to renovate.

US District Judge Ana Reyes, who is overseeing a legal challenge to Trump’s plans to overhaul the East Potomac Golf Course, put a tentative hold on any further tree removal and is holding an emergency hearing Monday, in which she told Justice Department attorneys they had lost “credibility” with her because they gave less than a day’s notice before cutting down the trees.

“More than just being upset and furious right now, I am just beyond disappointed with the government,” Reyes said. When a DOJ attorney said they had done their “best” to give her and the plaintiffs a heads-up, the judge said, her voice raised, “No, you did your absolute worst.”

“I am thoroughly unamused right now,” Reyes also said.

  • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world
    107·
    5 hours ago

    I would LOVE if the thing that brought Trump down was Tree Law. It won’t happen but everything is so ridiculous thee could just be a chance

    • unitedwithme@lemmy.today
      7·
      3 hours ago

      Quick, someone find out if there are endangered or protected species living there that would make it a federal crime! Not that the rules really apply anymore, but would buy time until the next presidency maybe. 🤞🤞

        • PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world
          2·
          33 minutes ago

          Technically it is ambiguous whether the president has the authority to pardon himself, because it’s never been done before, because it’s such an open admission of absolute corruption that it would take a complete and total fuckwit not to realize that self-pardoning is the single most self incriminating act one can do.

    • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialEnglish
      20·
      4 hours ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Tree_Riot

      The Pine Tree Riot was an act of resistance to British royal authority undertaken by American colonists in Weare, New Hampshire, on April 14, 1772, placing it among the disputes between Crown and colonists that culminated in the American Revolution.

      In 1722, under the Broad Arrow Policy it became illegal to cut down white pine trees larger than 12 inches in diameter in New Hampshire in order to reserve them for use as Royal Navy masts. This law was not strictly enforced until 1766, when Governor John Wentworth began enforcing it.

      On April 13, 1772, Sheriff Benjamin Whiting and Deputy John Quigley discovered a sawmill in Weare, New Hampshire, violating this law. They arrested the leader, Ebenezer Mudgett, and released him on bail. The next day, Mudgett and twenty men attacked the Sheriff and Deputy at the Quimby Inn, beating them nearly to death with large rods and sending them out of town on horseback. Some credit this incident with inspiring the Boston Tea Party, which significantly contributed to the start of the American Revolutionary War.