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Trump’s arch faces new legal challenge from Virginia and D.C.
Headline from The Columbian
The District of Columbia and Virginia on Saturday sued the Trump administration to block construction of the president’s planned 250-foot arch, which he wants to begin building as early as next week. “This project is flagrantly unlawful,” the lawsuit states.
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A view of Memorial Circle, where US President Donald Trump’s plans to build a “triumphal arch,” in Washington, DC on October 1, 2026. Trump has said the massive arch he wants to build on a historic location will double as a base for drones and snipers.
Washington, D.C., and Virginia sued the National Parks Service and Interior Department to block President Trump’s proposed triumphal arch on Saturday, a new court filing shows. The planned arch would resemble arches in other cities, including Paris’s Arc de Triomphe, and be constructed on the border…
The District of Columbia and Virginia have filed a joint lawsuit challenging the proposed Triumphal Arch at Memorial Circle, arguing that the Trump administration is pushing the project forward without required reviews and approvals mandated by federal law. Why the District is suing D.C.
The governments of Washington D.C. and Virginia asked a federal court to block construction of President Trump's planned " triumphal arch ," claiming it's unlawfully tall and would snarl traffic for years.
Washington, D.C., and Virginia on Saturday sued to block President Donald Trump from building the White House’s proposed Triumphal Arch. The arch, planned between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, has faced intense opposition from critics on the basis of concerns that it should r…
The District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Virginia filed a lawsuit on Halloween against the National Park Service to halt Trump's 'Triumphal Arch' planned for construction in Memorial Circle in Arlington.
Virginia and the District of Columbia filed suit Saturday to stop the Trump administration from beginning construction of a 250-foot-tall triumphal arch at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery.
Virginia and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in federal court Saturday in a last-ditch effort to stop the construction of the triumphal arch planned for Memorial Circle in Washington.
The two jurisdictions are asking a federal judge to halt the plan and argue that they have “indisputable standing” to bring their lawsuit because the arch would have tangible negative effects.
Legal challenges to Donald Trump’s proposed memorial arch are mounting even as its construction is imminent The legal challenges to Donald Trump ’s proposed memorial arch are mounting, with the District of Columbia and Virginia suing in federal court on Saturday as the administration says constructi…
U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkin ordered both sides to talk and to agree on a proposed briefing schedule on the motion for a temporary restraining order by Saturday evening.
WASHINGTON -- The legal challenges to President Donald Trump's proposed memorial arch are mounting, with the District of Columbia and Virginia suing in federal court Saturday as the administration says construction could begin as early as next week.
The District of Columbia and Virginia on Saturday sued the Trump administration to block construction of the president’s planned 250-foot arch, which he wants to begin building as early as next week. “This project is flagrantly unlawful,” the lawsuit states.
