{"id":685507,"date":"2026-10-13T12:23:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=685507"},"modified":"2026-10-13T12:23:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:23:40","slug":"lost-all-credibility-biden-appointed-judge-unloads-on-trumps-justice-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=685507","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lost all credibility\u2019: Biden-appointed judge unloads on Trump\u2019s Justice Department"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A judicial activist with a track record of opposing the Trump administration was admittedly \u201cfurious\u201d at the Justice Department during a courtroom proceeding.<\/p>\n

If not the clear winner, leftist judges are unquestionably in contention for proving the biggest obstacle to President Donald Trump\u2019s agenda. Some have earned a reputation as worse than others, and on Monday U.S. District Court Judge Ana Reyes of the District of Columbia piled fury atop a previous misconduct complaint when she unloaded on DOJ attorneys over felled trees.<\/p>\n

Covering the courtroom drama as the Uruguay-born, Biden-appointed judge questioned the timing of a notice to cut down hundreds of trees to advance a revitalization project at the East Potomac Golf Links, MeidasTouch chief Washington correspondent Scott MacFarlane reacted, \u201cWhoa. Fire from Judge Ana Reyes just now,\u201d as he quoted, \u201cI don\u2019t know how I could\u2019ve made it clearer!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat has happened has cost the government all of its credibility!\u201d she went on before chiding in a tone described as \u201cscreaming,\u201d \u201cAt 4:55pm on a Friday of a holiday weekend, the plaintiffs and I get (little) notice that hundreds of trees are going to be chopped down!\u201d<\/p>\n

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In raised voice, Judge Reyes is blistering Trump Admin lawyers<\/p>\n

\u201cAt 4:55pm on a Friday of a holiday weekend, the plaintiffs and I get (little) notice that hundreds of trees are going to be chopped down!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) October 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In endeavoring to restore the golf course situated on the south side of the island where the Thomas Jefferson Memorial resides to its condition from the 1920s, 430 trees were felled Saturday with plans to take down another 299.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s courtroom drama was only the latest example of Reyes clashing with the administration. Previously, the judge who\u2019d made thousands of dollars of donations<\/a> to Democratic Party campaigns \u2014 including then-former Vice President Joe Biden\u2019s 2020 presidential campaign \u2014 blocked the Department of Homeland Security from deporting Haitians by ending their temporary protected status.<\/p>\n

She was also alleged to have \u201ccompromised the dignity\u201d of a hearing on the ban of so-called \u201ctransgenders\u201d from service in the military when she was said to have questioned a DOJ attorney on his religious views, prompting a complaint<\/a> from the Justice Department on her alleged \u201chostile and egregious misconduct.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the hearing, Reyes accused the defendants of intentionally waiting until the last minute to notify the court about plans to take down trees after the decision had been made days earlier.<\/p>\n

A previous hearing on the case found the judge expressing, \u201cI am not the Lorax. I do not speak for the trees. I am a judge.\u201d Though she insisted she did not want to issue a restraining order during that September hearing, Monday\u2019s session included a temporary bar on continued tree removal.<\/p>\n

Spinning the case as a contest against the creation of a \u201cTrump golf course\u201d where a golf course already exists, one-time ethics lawyer to then-President Barack Obama, Norm Eisen, shared the docket announcing the emergency hearing for Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaintiffs are likely to suffer immediate and irreparable harm in the absence of preliminary relief. The removal of hundreds of trees from East Potomac Golf Course is permanent, while the Government will not be prejudiced by a short delay given that weather might continue to prevent it from proceeding in any event,\u201d read the order from Reyes.<\/p>\n

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BREAKING: the court paused the Trump admin tree removal at East Potomac Golf Links, where we are contesting dumping toxic East Wing debris &amp; creating a Trump golf course<\/p>\n

We raced to court with Democracy Forward &amp; Lowell &amp; Assoc, &amp; filed for an emergency hearing\u2013today at 10am! https:\/\/t.co\/MjzDEZuO9S<\/p>\n

\u2014 Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) October 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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A judicial activist with a track record of opposing the Trump administration was admittedly \u201cfurious\u201d at the Justice Department during a courtroom proceeding. If not the clear winner, leftist judges are unquestionably in contention for proving the biggest obstacle to President Donald Trump\u2019s agenda. Some have earned a reputation as worse than others, and on… Continue reading \u2018Lost all credibility\u2019: Biden-appointed judge unloads on Trump\u2019s Justice Department<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}