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.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I get where you’re coming from, but that would mean that we still have to read about the sack of shit regularly. I’d rather it just be over and to never have to hear him speak ever again.

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      23 hours ago

      Me too, but I’m sternly into the retalatory nature of the american judiciary system here. The guy did a lot of damage to my sanity and I need him to suffer for at least as long as the lady they failed to kill.

      And then have the execution be bothed too, maybe not wetting the spunge or something.

      Anything else would just be letting him off easy.