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.

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    1 day ago

    You clearly have a thing for shitting on anyone trying to stop him or his loompas, given your comment history.

    Speaking of my missing nuance (???) I did not edit your comment. Not sure what gaping stankhole of self you pulled that jewel out of, but the fact is that I merely wrote my own. Had you edited your own comment to include some mild words of disfavor for The Actual Wrongdoers along with your usual steaming pile of nobody’s doing anything, you’d never have heard from me.

    But for your sake I’ll cut to the chase. See, my basic problem with what you wrote, apart from what you actually wrote (and not just what you think you wrote), is that I am an American less than three weeks away from yet another election which foreign powers and oligarchs have poured even more money and propaganda and social media accounts into manipulating toward a specific destructive outcome, and your comment just sounds like so much concern trolling: a sound that is execrably familiar to every one of us who actually live here.

    But there’s always a tipoff that it’s not real: the actual guilty parties remain unmentioned. And there it is.

    Then again, I can’t say I expected to see you online today, so maybe there’s that as well.

    TL;DR: You wrote a comment that included an obvious, in-your-face untruth in it, one that can be readily disproven in countless ways with one simple search, and now you’re doubling down on your dishonesty to defend it, in a moment just prior to an election already mired in misinformation and propaganda efforts aimed toward getting rid of even the last vestiges of democracy. You’re helping what you claim to decry. Don’t do this.

    • Pratai@piefed.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      19
      ·
      1 day ago

      Yep…. It’s defining a reading comprehension issue. Going to go ahead and block you so I can stop receiving these walls of text that have nothing to do with the discussion.

      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 day ago

        Thanks for confirming what I thought and letting the rest of us know what side you’re really on.

        • possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          12 hours ago

          They’re not even an American, they’re some euro ameriboo superlib who thinks anyone left of Kamala Harris is as bad as Trump. Big enlightened centrist energy.