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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Safiyah Riddle

A lawsuit seeks to stop Trump's overhaul of a 100-year-old public golf course in Washington

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Two golfers in Washington, D.C., sued the federal government on Friday to try to prevent the Trump administration from overhauling a more than 100-year-old public golf course, accusing the administration of violating environmental laws and polluting a park that is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The suit is the latest in a series of legal battles challenging President Donald Trump's extraordinary efforts to put his mark on public spaces in the nation's capitol, including shuttering the Kennedy Center.

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