U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered construction of Donald Trump’s planned triumphal arch in Washington, D.C., to stop pending the outcome of a combined legal case. Trump and the federal National Parks Service are named as defendants.
The ruling came as the White House was launching a new website for the project. It features 3D renderings and wide views of the proposed structure.
Chutkan rejected the government’s argument that the arch could serve national security purposes. She noted that the claim did not appear in the planning documents used to review and approve the project, and was first raised in the defendants’ opposition brief the previous week.
