{"id":2688930,"date":"2026-10-21T08:29:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignnutjob-judge-ana-reyes-rages-over-trumps-attempt-to-fix-up-ugly-golf-course\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T08:29:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:29:58","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignnutjob-judge-ana-reyes-rages-over-trumps-attempt-to-fix-up-ugly-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignnutjob-judge-ana-reyes-rages-over-trumps-attempt-to-fix-up-ugly-golf-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Ana Reyes Is Protecting Mediocrity For No Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignnutjob-judge-ana-reyes-rages-over-trumps-attempt-to-fix-up-ugly-golf-course%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2688930&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As an example of how stupid <em>everything<\/em> has become, District Court Judge Ana Reyes is raging at the Trump administration for cutting down trees on a federally owned golf course, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.playdcgolf.com\/east-potomac-golf-links\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">East Potomac Golf Links<\/a>. She\u2019s extremely angry about the <em>towering judicial controversy<\/em>, which is somehow a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/10\/19\/nx-s1-6007746\/golf-course-potomac-white-house-tree-removal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">major piece of national news<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>So it must an absolute <em>jewelbox<\/em>, right? Judge Reyes must be locked in a life-and-death battle with the executive branch over the very salvation of one of our richest national treasures, or something. Trump must be trying to destroy the Yosemite Valley of golf courses. <\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s go to the reviews!<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s one <a href=\"https:\/\/worldgolfer.blog\/2026\/07\/10\/28643\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from a golfer<\/a> who deplores the mixing of golf and politics, and doesn\u2019t want anything to do with the Trump stuff. The course, he says, \u201cis in dire need of a renovation,\u201d because it\u2019s nothing much: \u201cIn all honesty, today\u2019s Blue Course is your stereotypical municipal golf course, with a flat terrain, below-average conditioning, and pretty boring features. The setting with water on three sides and views of national monuments is memorable, but the course itself is fairly forgettable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfnow.com\/courses\/-8074-east-potomac-golf-links-blue-course-details#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reviews<\/a> on the Golf Now website trend toward this 2024 review: \u201cNot awful, not great, but what you\u2019d expect from a city course.\u201d Nobody seems to love it or hate it. It\u2019s <em>there<\/em>, and it\u2019s cheap.<\/p>\n<p>Tripadvisor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com\/Attraction_Review-g28970-d543842-Reviews-East_Potomac_Golf_Course-Washington_DC_District_of_Columbia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more of the same<\/a>: \u00a0\u201cDoesn\u2019t have the Wow! factor of some other courses,\u201d reads one review. Here\u2019s another: \u201cHoles are thought out well. Upkeep is horrible. Turf torn on 6 of 18 holes, debris liters [sic] all of the course but the edges of the fairways have debris obviously from past seasons that means the course has not had a good sweeping in some time.\u201d And so on. \u201cWas a fun time, but the course does need a bit of care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all so desperately important. The judiciary must act to keep the executive branch from redesigning an old and run-down golf course, or we\u2019ll brutally annihilate the very heart of our republic. Mercifully, the Fourth Estate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/10\/19\/us\/politics\/trump-washington-golf-course.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stands watch<\/a> astride the bulwarks.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>The docket for the case, which has been mired in litigation since February, runs to a hundred line items. A couple dozen attorneys are listed on the case, including <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Statler_and_Waldorf:_From_the_Balcony#\/media\/File:StatlerandWaldorf(2).JPG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Norm Eisen and Abbe Lowell<\/a>, and the roll call of law firms is a laundry list of D.C. powerhouses like Covington &#038; Burling. Here, for one example among many, are the lawyers who represent the Department of the Interior, minus their phone numbers and email addresses so no one stoops to prank calling them:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Keith Robertson<\/strong><br \/>DOJ-ENRD<br \/>150 M Street, NE<br \/>Washington, DC 20002<br \/><em>LEAD ATTORNEY<\/em><br \/><em>ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stanley Edmund Woodward , Jr.<\/strong><br \/>U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE<br \/>950 Pennsylvania Ave NW<br \/>Washington, DC 20530<br \/><em>LEAD ATTORNEY<\/em><br \/><em>ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Adam R.F. Gustafson<\/strong><br \/>DOJ-Enrd<br \/>Environment and Natural Resources Division<br \/>950 Pennsylvania Ave NW<br \/>Washington, DC 20530<br \/><em>ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Block<\/strong><br \/>DOJ-OASG<br \/>Office of the Associate Attorney General<br \/>950 Pennsylvania Ave., NW<br \/>Washington, DC 20530<br \/><em>ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Benjamin Hayes<\/strong><br \/>Department of Justice<br \/>Civil Division<br \/>950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW<br \/>Washington, DC 20530<br \/><em>ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Marissa Ann Piropato<\/strong><br \/>U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE<br \/>ENRD<br \/>P.O. Box 7611<br \/>Washington, DC 20044-7611<br \/><em>ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert N. Stander<\/strong><br \/>DOJ-Enrd<br \/>950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW<br \/>Washington, DC 20530<br \/><em>ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, not enough lawyers yet.<\/p>\n<p>1.) We\u2019re going to fix up an old and run-down golf course<\/p>\n<p>2.) Ugly and endless courtroom brawl<\/p>\n<p>3.) Major national crisis<\/p>\n<p>Do people just have too much time on their hands?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>   Chris Bray is a senior correspondent at The Federalist and a former infantry sergeant in the U.S. Army. He has a history PhD from the University of California Los Angeles, not that it did him any good. He also posts on Substack, at &#8220;Tell Me How This Ends,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an example of how stupid everything has become, District Court Judge Ana Reyes is raging at the Trump administration for cutting down trees on a federally owned golf course, the East Potomac Golf Links. She\u2019s extremely angry about the towering judicial controversy, which is somehow a major piece of national news. So it must<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":2688931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/greenskeeper-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2688930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/greenskeeper-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2688930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2688931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2688930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2688930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2688930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}