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Trump taken to court over plans to redo park with 'barren' MLK Memorial
Trump’s Garden of Vanity Runs on the Logic of ImpunityPower, Not TasteThis is not a dispute about landscaping. It is a dispute about who gets to impose a private political vision on public land, public symbols, and public law. Trump holds the institutional power here by virtue of the presidency, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum appears to have converted that power into administrative action by announcing West Potomac Park as the chosen site without conditioning it on congressional approval.That matters because the question is not whether the proposed garden is “magnificent.” The question is…
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