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.
Either you’re ignorant or intentionally shit-stirring. Yeah, there have always been problems. On the federal level they were pretty clean relative to most other countries in the world.
To equate at all what’s happening now with the DoJ of ten years ago is to minimize the current crisis.
Yes, billionaires have had a lot of advantages. They have more resources to play the game. But sitting Congressmen did go to prison. The Binance guy and Sam Bankman Fried both went to prison. There was largely some justice, and when things did go wrong there was sometimes a legal remedy for it.
Above all, there was a constant push to improve.