A federal judge wants to know whether Donald Trump’s Justice Department lied to her about the public golf course he plans to rebuild.
Government lawyers told Judge Ana Reyes for months that the plans for East Potomac Golf Course weren’t final, even as Trump posted that they were and workers cut down at least 400 trees. “Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting president,” she wrote.
“For months, the court trusted, but did not verify,” Reyes said last week. “No longer.” Today she announced plans to name a special master, an outside investigator answering to the court, to learn whether officials and their lawyers misled her. Her pick is Jessie Liu, Trump’s own US attorney for Washington during his first term.
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Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign, ahead of Republican Sen. Sullivan by 637 votes, sues Alaska election officials for records of which absentee ballots may be rejected.
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Source: The Hudson Valley Press
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