As scheduled\u2026 hours after a federal court made clear that the schedule now runs through the courthouse. Deepest of sighs. <\/p>\n
He also said the administration is \u201casking the D.C. Circuit Court for immediate remedy,\u201d and appealing an order you don\u2019t like is exactly how the system is supposed to work. Announcing before the appeals court has even seen the case that the date isn\u2019t moving and the judge has \u201cabsolutely no right\u201d to weigh in is not.<\/p>\n
Trump went on to call the notice requirement \u201ctime-consuming, unnecessary, expensive, and unconstitutional,\u201d which is a lot of adjectives for \u201cwe don\u2019t plan to tell the court what we\u2019re doing.\u201d Which\u2026 happens to be the exact behavior that got us here. In October, the Interior Department ordered, considered, and approved a plan to remove hundreds of trees<\/a> in five days, and had bulldozers on site the next morning.<\/p>\n This administration has made a hobby of disrespecting judges and the rule of law. But the President of the United States taking to social media to announce that a court order won\u2019t change the government\u2019s plans is bold, even for them. <\/p>\n It also blows up his own lawyers\u2019 case. Again. The Justice Department has spent this litigation insisting there\u2019s no final plan to rebuild the course, that, at most, the president has given it some preliminary thought, while the president kept posting the plan, the architect, and the closing date. Reyes noticed. Her opinion included screenshots of the posts and contained this line:<\/p>\n Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The DOJ\u2019s litigation strategy, in other words, has been \u201cplease disregard my client,\u201d and the client has responded by posting through it. Last week, the DOJ lawyers would show up for the golf course case but balked at signing the brief<\/a>, and the plaintiffs had to file a notice letting Reyes know the president had called her a \u201ccrazed lunatic\u201d before breakfast<\/a>.<\/p>\n This time he didn\u2019t even wait for morning.<\/p>\n Reyes also took on the government\u2019s argument that the injunction infringes on presidential authority, pointing out that the order runs against the Interior Department and the National Park Service, not Trump himself:<\/p>\n \u201cSeparation of powers\u201d is not a talismanic incantation that permits the Executive to run amok, unchecked. \u2026 One branch may not shield itself from accountability merely by invoking separation of powers principles without any reasoning. But that is all the Government has done.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n That was written before the midnight post, but it reads like a response to it.<\/p>\n The order asks for 10 business days\u2019 warning before the bulldozers come back, and the president answered by giving the whole country three weeks\u2019 warning that he doesn\u2019t think the order applies to him, which, if nothing else, is the most advance notice anyone in this case has gotten from the government yet.<\/p>\n Earlier:<\/strong> Golf Course Plaintiffs Give Judge Reyes A Heads-Up: The President Called You Insane Before Breakfast<\/a> Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of\u00a0The Jabot podcast<\/a>, and co-host of\u00a0Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email\u00a0her<\/a>\u00a0with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter\u00a0@Kathryn1<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky\u00a0@Kathryn1<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Trump Tees Off On Golf Course Injunction Hours After It\u2019s Issued<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n On Monday, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes issued a 70-page preliminary injunction in the fight over the East Potomac Golf Course. It bars the Trump administration from removing or damaging any more trees, and requires 10 business days\u2019 written notice before the government makes \u201cany irreparable modification to any forms or features of East Potomac Park\u201d while the case proceeds. Shortly before midnight, President Donald Trump logged on to Truth Social to let everyone know how that was going to go.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are closing the East Potomac Golf Course Site as scheduled on November 15th in order to renovate and rebuild for Competitive (with other such projects!), Safety, Modernization, and Aesthetic reasons,\u201d the president wrote, as The Hill reported<\/a>. He also wrote, \u201cThe judge has absolutely no right to hold up this very important and beautiful Project.\u201d<\/p>\n As scheduled\u2026 hours after a federal court made clear that the schedule now runs through the courthouse. Deepest of sighs. <\/p>\n He also said the administration is \u201casking the D.C. Circuit Court for immediate remedy,\u201d and appealing an order you don\u2019t like is exactly how the system is supposed to work. Announcing before the appeals court has even seen the case that the date isn\u2019t moving and the judge has \u201cabsolutely no right\u201d to weigh in is not.<\/p>\n Trump went on to call the notice requirement \u201ctime-consuming, unnecessary, expensive, and unconstitutional,\u201d which is a lot of adjectives for \u201cwe don\u2019t plan to tell the court what we\u2019re doing.\u201d Which\u2026 happens to be the exact behavior that got us here. In October, the Interior Department ordered, considered, and approved a plan to remove hundreds of trees<\/a> in five days, and had bulldozers on site the next morning.<\/p>\n This administration has made a hobby of disrespecting judges and the rule of law. But the President of the United States taking to social media to announce that a court order won\u2019t change the government\u2019s plans is bold, even for them. <\/p>\n It also blows up his own lawyers\u2019 case. Again. The Justice Department has spent this litigation insisting there\u2019s no final plan to rebuild the course, that, at most, the president has given it some preliminary thought, while the president kept posting the plan, the architect, and the closing date. Reyes noticed. Her opinion included screenshots of the posts and contained this line:<\/p>\n Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The DOJ\u2019s litigation strategy, in other words, has been \u201cplease disregard my client,\u201d and the client has responded by posting through it. Last week, the DOJ lawyers would show up for the golf course case but balked at signing the brief<\/a>, and the plaintiffs had to file a notice letting Reyes know the president had called her a \u201ccrazed lunatic\u201d before breakfast<\/a>.<\/p>\n This time he didn\u2019t even wait for morning.<\/p>\n Reyes also took on the government\u2019s argument that the injunction infringes on presidential authority, pointing out that the order runs against the Interior Department and the National Park Service, not Trump himself:<\/p>\n \u201cSeparation of powers\u201d is not a talismanic incantation that permits the Executive to run amok, unchecked. \u2026 One branch may not shield itself from accountability merely by invoking separation of powers principles without any reasoning. But that is all the Government has done.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n That was written before the midnight post, but it reads like a response to it.<\/p>\n The order asks for 10 business days\u2019 warning before the bulldozers come back, and the president answered by giving the whole country three weeks\u2019 warning that he doesn\u2019t think the order applies to him, which, if nothing else, is the most advance notice anyone in this case has gotten from the government yet.<\/p>\n Earlier:<\/strong> Golf Course Plaintiffs Give Judge Reyes A Heads-Up: The President Called You Insane Before Breakfast<\/a> On Monday, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes issued a 70-page preliminary injunction in the fight over the East Potomac Golf Course. It bars the Trump administration from removing or damaging any more trees, and requires 10 business days\u2019 written notice before the government makes \u201cany irreparable modification to any forms or features of East Potomac […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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DOJ Lawyers Will Show Up For The Golf Course Case But Signing The Brief Is Another Matter Entirely<\/a>
DOJ Demands Judge Recuse Herself For Inappropriate Noticing They Broke The Law<\/a>
\u2018You Did Your Absolute Worst\u2019: Judge Delivers Epic Benchslap Over Trump Golf Course Chainsaw Spree<\/a>
Ballroom Blitz Blocked<\/a><\/p>\n
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DOJ Lawyers Will Show Up For The Golf Course Case But Signing The Brief Is Another Matter Entirely<\/a>
DOJ Demands Judge Recuse Herself For Inappropriate Noticing They Broke The Law<\/a>
\u2018You Did Your Absolute Worst\u2019: Judge Delivers Epic Benchslap Over Trump Golf Course Chainsaw Spree<\/a>
Ballroom Blitz Blocked<\/a><\/p>\n
\nKathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of\u00a0The Jabot podcast<\/a>, and co-host of\u00a0Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email\u00a0her<\/a>\u00a0with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter\u00a0@Kathryn1<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky\u00a0@Kathryn1<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"