Biden-appointed judge with history of fiery Trump clashes erupts at DOJ: 'You've lost all credibility!'

A federal judge appointed by President Joe Biden sharply criticized Justice Department attorneys on Monday during an emergency hearing in Washington over the cutting of trees at East Potomac Golf Links in Hains Point. Judge Ana Reyes was reacting to the government's notice, sent late on a Friday, that crews would start felling trees the next day. Journalist Scott MacFarlane, who posted updates from the courtroom, said she screamed at the lawyers, and that a government attorney conceded roughly 430 trees were already gone, according to Fox News.

The administration says the work carries out a 2019 National Park Service landscape-restoration plan that came before President Donald Trump's own proposal for the property. Trump hopes to turn the public course, located on parkland, into a championship venue modeled on golf properties tied to him in the United States, Ireland and Scotland. According to MacFarlane, Reyes told the attorneys, "You've lost credibility!"

Reyes, born in Uruguay and nominated by Biden in 2023, has clashed with the administration before. Chad Mizelle, then the department's chief of staff, filed a complaint accusing her of bias. It cited her questioning of a government lawyer about his faith during a case over Trump's limits on transgender military service.

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