Judge Slams Unauthorized Tree Removal at Trump's D.C. Golf Course

An incident occurred on October 12 (local time) where hundreds of trees were cut down without proper prior notice at a public golf course in Washington, D.C., which U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing to renovate, as reported by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and others. Although the presiding judge had urged the Department of the Interior, responsible for the construction work, to inform the court in advance of the logging plans, the department submitted the logging plan to the court on the n