Wow. "Judge Ana Reyes has spent weeks watching this administration ignore her. On Monday, she put all of it on the record. Her ruling blocks the administration from cutting down any more trees at East Potomac Golf Links, a 106-year-old public course. The Interior Department had ignored her earlier decision and felled roughly 500 trees without permission. Under the ruling, the administration also has to give 10 days’ notice before any further work. The line that will follow this administration around is about his own lawyers. “Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President,” Reyes wrote. Then she listed what they wanted her not to believe. “Not to believe him that a cabinet secretary has ‘developed’ a federal land project. Not to believe him that the secretary’s agency will destroy a historic golf course already on the land. Not to believe him that ‘Restoration work’ will begin ‘IMMEDIATELY!’ Not to believe him that the course ‘will be closed’ for over a year. Not to believe what Trump has repeatedly told the American public. And yet, here we are.” She explained what the case had turned into. “This started as a case about golf. That good walk spoiled. But it has become much more. It now forces the Court to reconcile assertions by Donald J. Trump with the sworn testimony of multiple government employees and the argument of senior Department of Justice attorneys.” She closed by returning to something she’d said at a September hearing. “The Court earlier stated, ‘I am not the Lorax. I do not speak for the trees.’ The Court still does not speak for the trees. It speaks only for the rule of law.” A federal judge used Dr. Seuss to tell Trump he isn’t above the law. She’d earned the right to: his government had cut down about 500 trees after assuring her it wouldn’t. He answered with 343 words of grievance on Truth Social. Trump called the ruling “unconstitutional” and complained about giving notice “to a judge who has no expertise in Golf, Architecture, Landscaping, Construction, or anything else having to do with building such a World Class Project.” He argued the course is “extremely dangerous to play” because of “the echoing throughout the air of the word, ‘FORE!’” The White House says it expects to be “vindicated on appeal,” and Trump says work starts November 15 regardless. Earlier this month, Reyes said the government had lost its “credibility.” At this point, that’s the most generous reading available." BREAKING: Trump's White House in Turmoil as Federal Judge Rebukes Him and Don Jr. Faces Russia Scrutiny reallyamerican.substack.com/…