Judge presses for firmer pause in East Potomac golf dispute
A federal judge pushed the Trump administration on Thursday to say more clearly whether it would hold off on major work at East Potomac Golf Links while the lawsuit over the project continues.
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes raised the issue during a July 2 hearing in Washington after President Donald Trump said on social media that renovations at the public course would begin Sept. 1. The judge did not issue a final ruling that day, but she pressed government lawyers for stronger assurances that the project would not move forward in a way that would undercut the court case.
The hearing is part of an active legal challenge to the planned overhaul of the course on the Potomac. The immediate question before Reyes was not the politics around the project, but whether the administration had made a commitment firm enough to keep major construction from starting before the dispute is decided.
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