Judge Ana C. Reyes said an outside investigator would help determine whether parks officials or Justice Department lawyers withheld plans for Washington’s East Potomac Park.
A federal judge on Friday called for an investigation into whether the Trump administration concealed its plans to renovate a public golf course at East Potomac Park.
Judges took away the possibility of parole for an Australian woman, Erin Patterson, and rejected a bid to overturn her conviction over deadly beef Wellington lunch.
The investigation of Cassidy Hutchinson was directed to the Justice Department’s civil rights division, which normally focuses on issues like police violence and election integrity.
A federal judge stopped the Trump administration from cutting trees and prohibited other changes at the park where the president has sought to overhaul a golf course.
Trees that have been cut down at East Potomac Golf Links are seen earlier this month in Washington. The Trump administration and the National Park Service moved to cut down up to 529 trees at East Potomac Golf Links.
By a 2-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel denied the Trump administration’s request that it immediately order the state to set aside 20,000 mail-in ballots.
Ms. Comey, the daughter of James Comey, the former director of the F.B.I., worked for the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan, handling the prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Sean Combs.
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