2026年10月13日 / 美国东部时间下午2:46 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
华盛顿—— 一名联邦法官周二阻止特朗普政府在华盛顿东波托马克高尔夫球场继续砍伐树木，为期两周。此前这家历史悠久的公共球场于周末被砍伐了数百棵树木。
美国地区法官安娜·雷耶斯在一份简短的命令中表示，内政部和国家公园管理局在10月26日之前不得在东波托马克高尔夫球场砍伐任何更多树木。她还规定，在该日期之前，特朗普政府在对球场的任何永久性形态或特征进行“任何不可逆转的改造”之前，必须提前三个工作日通知法院和原告——华盛顿保护联盟以及两名当地高尔夫球手。
雷耶斯表示，如果不采取救济措施，华盛顿保护联盟和高尔夫球手很可能会受到损害。原告们正在挑战特朗普总统对东波托马克高尔夫球场的全面改造计划。
“政府一次又一次试图规避法律，疯狂地试图将公共休闲空间改造成高端高尔夫球场，今天的命令将阻止他们对宝贵的公共资源造成进一步的不可逆转的损害，”华盛顿保护联盟和两名居民的律师表示。“我们对法院介入并在我们寻求更持久的救济期间阻止额外施工感到高兴。”
这份简短命令发布之前，法官在周一近四小时的听证会上严厉斥责了司法部。她是在周五下午得知国家公园管理局计划作为“树木管理和文化景观修复项目”的一部分，在东波托马克高尔夫球场砍伐约529棵树木后召开这次听证会的。
华盛顿保护联盟随后在周日的一份文件中告诉法院，工作人员仅在周六就砍伐了全部529棵树木，其中包括“健康成熟的橡树和枫树”，并计划“很快”再砍伐“数百棵”，但降雨影响了施工进度。
司法部律师玛丽莎·皮罗帕托告诉雷耶斯，总共砍伐了430棵树木。她说，另有约99棵树木已被确定为砍伐对象。
数月来，雷耶斯一直反复告知政府，必须提前将东波托马克高尔夫球场的任何施工或类似活动计划通知原告和法院，以便她有机会审查该行动，并在必要时发布命令。
但司法部直到周五下午5点前不久才提交了关于计划砍伐树木的文件。
“你们没有尽最大努力。你们简直是彻头彻尾的失职，”雷耶斯就司法部通知法院和原告计划砍伐树木的工作告诉皮罗帕托。
法官告诉皮罗帕托和其他政府律师，他们“失去了可信度”。
她下令国家广场和纪念公园主管凯文·格里斯以及国家公园管理局运营副主任弗兰克·兰兹出庭作证，解释导致该球场430棵树木被砍伐的原因，以及是谁批准了周六的砍伐行动。
雷耶斯安排10月19日举行另一场听证会，并下令国家公园管理局代理局长杰西卡·鲍伦和内政部副参谋长格雷戈里·维舍尔出庭。
Judge blocks Trump administration from cutting down trees at D.C. golf course for 2 weeks
October 13, 2026 / 2:46 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington— A federal judge on Tuesday barred the Trump administration from removing trees at East Potomac Golf Links in Washington, D.C., for another two weeks after hundreds of trees were felled at the historic public course over the weekend.
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes said in a brief order that the Department of the Interior and National Park Service may not cut down any further trees at East Potomac through Oct. 26. She also said that through that date, the Trump administration must provide the court and plaintiffs, the D.C. Preservation League and two local golfers, with three business days’ notice before “making any irreparable modification to any permanent form or feature” of the course.
Reyes said the D.C. Preservation League and golfers will likely be harmed without relief. The plaintiffs are challenging President Trump’s planned overhaul of East Potomac.
“The administration has time and again tried to avoid the law in their mad rush toward converting a public recreation space to a high-end golf course and today’s order will stop them from doing further irreparable harm to a precious public resource,” lawyers for the D.C. Preservation League and two residents said. “We are pleased that the court intervened and will prevent additional work while we seek more lasting relief.”
The brief order comes after the judge fiercely chastised the Justice Department during a nearly four-hour-long hearing Monday. She called the hearing after learning Friday afternoon that the National Park Service planned to remove an estimated 529 trees at East Potomac golf course as part of a “tree management and cultural landscape rehabilitation project.”
Felled trees are visible on East Potomac Golf Course on Oct. 10, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Aaron Schwartz / Getty Images
The D.C. Preservation League then told the court in a filing Sunday that the crew had cut down all 529 trees on Saturday alone, including “healthy, mature oaks and maples,” and had planned to remove “hundreds” more “imminently,” but rain impacted the work.
A Justice Department lawyer, Marissa Piropato, told Reyes that 430 trees in total were felled. Another roughly 99 have been identified for removal, she said.
For months, Reyes had reiterated to the government that it must provide advance notice to the plaintiffs and the court of plans to conduct any construction or similar activity at East Potomac, allowing her the opportunity to review that action and, if warranted, issue an order.
But the Justice Department did not submit a filing about the planned tree removals until just before 5 p.m. Friday.
“You did not do your best. You did your absolute worst,” Reyes told Piropato of the Justice Department’s efforts to notify the court and plaintiffs of the planned tree removals.
The judge told Piropato and other government lawyers that they “lost credibility.”
She ordered Kevin Griess, superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, and Frank Lands, deputy director of operations for the National Park Service, to testify about what led to the felling of the 430 trees at the course and who gave the go-ahead for the removals to take place Saturday.
Reyes scheduled another hearing for Oct. 19 and ordered Jessica Bowron, acting director of the National Park Service, and Gregory Wischer, deputy chief of staff at the Interior Department, to appear.
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