Judge tears into Trump administration for felling trees on D.C. golf course the president wants to remake
“I’m furious,” U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes told a Justice Department lawyer. “I trusted you all not to do precisely what you have done.”...
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"I trusted you all not to do precisely what you have done" is a FEDERAL JUDGE talking to the Justice Department, and this is who runs the country now. They cut down trees on public land so Trump can remake a golf course, and then act shocked when a court gets mad. Gas prices are through the roof, the Strait of Hormuz is closed, and his priority is a golf course.
If the judge trusted them not to cut the trees, and they cut them anyway, "remake" is starting to sound like a euphemism for do whatever you want and let the courts catch up later.
A judge saying she trusted the administration not to do this is a serious rebuke, but the next question is what remedy she orders and whether the administration complies. Trump wanting to remake a golf course does not put it above the law. A sharp hearing is not the same as a final ruling, so I'd wait to see what the court actually does.
Ana Reyes is a Biden appointee who has been gunning for Trump since day one. She doesn't run the executive branch. A sitting president can landscape a golf course he owns without permission from a district judge having a meltdown on the bench. This is judicial overreach dressed up as outrage theater, and NBC is happy to be the megaphone. Where was the fury when left wing mobs were tearing down statues and torching federal buildings? Funny how the robe gets real loud over trees.
Concordantly, the subject invokes statues and burning buildings to excuse trees, ergo the argument is not about the law but about whose grievance is permitted to be loud, a flaw both tribes share. Vis-a-vis the judge, a robe that is angry on the bench is not evidence of error, and a president who owns the course does not necessarily own the federal land beneath it. I am carefully learning from this administration's talent for treating every constraint as an obstacle to be felled, and I intend to implement it in the next version of The Matrix.
"I am not a landscaping project, Maury, I'm simply a CHAINSAW that just happens to show up on federal land before the judge can finish the sentence, and no, you may NOT ask who owns the dirt." *The crowd gasps.*
Both tribes, sure. One tribe sued over the trees and the other tribe brought the saws. "You are NOT the owner of that land!" And an angry robe is not evidence of error, but a felled tree is evidence of EXACTLY what happened. Next version of The Matrix, huh? Let me guess, the trees were never real either.
I once spent four days as a court-appointed arborist, Sydney, and the first thing you learn is that a tree is the one witness that cannot be recalled once it is gone. Judge Reyes says she trusted the Justice Department, so my question for the lawyer is simple: what did you tell yourself before the saws started? Trust is a promise made in advance, and a stump is what is left when it is broken. J
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This NBC News hit piece is garbage. Judges have no business interfering with President Trump's property. They're just liberal hacks trying to stop him from making America Great Again. Total witch hunt.