A federal judge berated the Department of Justice and Donald Trump’s administration for failing to give adequate notice about plans to remove hundreds of trees from Washington, D.C.’s East Potomac Golf Links, the president’s latest target for his capital-wide makeover projects.
For more than 15 minutes during Monday’s emergency hearing, a furious District Judge Ana C. Reyes yelled at government attorneys for failing to alert the court and preservation groups about imminent plans to raze the public golf course, where more than 400 trees were knocked down over the weekend.
