法官继续阻止特朗普政府砍伐华盛顿特区高尔夫球场的树木,确认自己“不是《老雷斯的故事》里的老雷斯”


更新时间:2026年10月26日 美国东部时间晚上10:49 | CBS新闻

一名联邦法官于周一阻止特朗普政府砍伐华盛顿特区波托马克东岸高尔夫球场的树木,这一带有立场鲜明的裁决,正值特朗普总统 overhaul 这座公共球场计划引发的持续一周多的争议期间。

“本庭此前曾表示:‘我不是老雷斯(《老雷斯的故事》中保护树木的角色),我不为树木代言’,”美国地区法官安娜·雷耶斯写道,“本庭依然不为树木代言,只维护法治。”

雷耶斯在一份70页的初步禁令裁决中,禁止政府在对翻新计划的诉讼进入司法程序期间,“砍伐或损坏”高尔夫球场的任何树木。法官还要求政府在对球场进行“任何不可逆转的改造”前10天发出通知。

此前法官已阻止树木砍伐至周一。

特朗普数月来一直寻求改造这座位于波托马克河畔的高尔夫球场,将其宣传为能举办高端职业赛事的“世界级锦标赛球场”,替代当前这座“运作紊乱”的球场。华盛顿特区保护联盟针对该球场的拟建改动提起诉讼,称政府未能分析项目影响,违反了《国家环境政策法》。

本月早些时候,政府在几乎未向法院或原告发出通知的情况下砍伐了数百棵树,此后雷耶斯就一直与政府存在分歧。两周前,在430多棵树被砍伐后举行的听证会上,法官对政府律师表示,他们已“失去公信力”,自己对此“怒不可遏”且“完全没有耐心”。

特朗普上周表示,球场将在11月关闭施工,15个月后重新开放。他后来又称工程将“立即”启动。

雷耶斯在周一的裁决中指出,特朗普关于翻新计划的表态,与政府律师提出的“因未做出最终决定,现阶段在法院挑战该计划在法律上为时过早”的立场难以调和。

“如果说有过的话,美国司法部很少有敦促联邦法院不信任现任总统的情况,”她写道,“这起案件起初事关高尔夫。那片美好场地遭破坏。但它的意义远不止于此。如今它迫使本庭协调唐纳德·J·特朗普总统的主张、多名政府雇员的宣誓证词,以及美国司法部高级律师的论点。”

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一名高尔夫球手从波托马克东岸高尔夫球场的一个大树桩旁走过,2026年10月12日,星期一,华盛顿。美联社照片/马克·沙伊贝尔莱因

雷耶斯表示,她起初不愿介入此案,写道自己“极不情愿去解决《老雷斯》诉《Once-ler》续集案”——这是指此前一次法庭听证会上,雷耶斯援引苏斯博士作品中的角色,解释自己为何无意对联邦政府的树木管理工作事无巨细插手。

她称自己介入此案“是因为政府做了它向所有人保证过不会做的事”,即砍伐高尔夫球场的数百棵树木。

雷耶斯认定,华盛顿特区保护联盟很可能成功证明,特朗普政府对该高尔夫球场的计划违反了环境评估的法定要求。

她还认定,树木砍伐是特朗普翻新计划的一部分,驳回了政府称这些砍伐属于独立维护工作的主张。

法官表示,她认为内政部副幕僚长的陈述不可信,包括他将该机构的树木管理计划描述为“清理”球场的说法。

CBS新闻已联系司法部和内政部寻求置评。

特朗普与雷耶斯一直不和,称她是“疯癫的疯子”。

本月早些时候,特朗普政府要求雷耶斯退出此案,称她已对政府表现出“公开敌意”,且“此前听证会上的歇斯底里显然表明她已不再公正”。

“仅举几例偏见迹象:雷耶斯法官不公平地质疑特朗普政府律师的智商,让她对特朗普政府的蔑视影响听证进程,且系统地忽视基本的权力分立原则以及对司法权的第三条宪法约束,”政府律师写道。

雷耶斯驳回了这一要求,否认自己存在偏见,并列举了她对政府律师的赞扬之词。

“那么发生了什么?不是突然出现的偏见,”雷耶斯在驳回请求的文件中写道,“相反,政府决定从波托马克东岸高尔夫球场砍伐500多棵健康、非入侵性的树木。它等到公共假期周末的周五下午4点55分,才通知将在15小时内开始砍伐树木。它在一天内砍倒了近430棵树,若非因下雨耽搁,还会毁掉更多树木。”

Judge continues to block Trump admin. from cutting down trees at D.C. golf course, confirms she’s still “not the Lorax”

Updated on: October 26, 2026 / 10:49 PM EDT / CBS News

A federal judge on Monday barred the Trump administration from removing trees from East Potomac Golf Links in Washington, D.C., in a colorful ruling that follows a weekslong controversy over President Trump’s plans to overhaul the publicly owned course.

“The Court earlier stated, ‘I am not the Lorax. I do not speak for the trees,’” U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes wrote. “The Court still does not speak for the trees. It speaks only for the rule of law.”

In a 70-page preliminary injunction ruling, Reyes prohibited the government from “removing or damaging” any trees on the golf course while a lawsuit challenging the renovation plan works its way through the court system. The judge also required 10 days’ notice before the government makes “any irreparable modification” to the course.

The judge had previously blocked tree removal through Monday.

Mr. Trump has sought to overhaul the golf course — which sits beside the Potomac River — for months, pitching a “World Class Championship Golf Course” fit to host high-profile professional tournaments instead of the current “dysfunctional” course. The D.C. Preservation League sued over the planned changes to the course, arguing the government violated the National Environmental Policy Act by failing to analyze the project’s impacts.

Reyes has sparred with the government since it cut down hundreds of trees earlier this month with little notice to the court or plaintiffs. In a hearing two weeks ago, after more than 430 trees were felled, the judge told lawyers for the government that they had “lost credibility,” and she was “furious” and “thoroughly unamused.”

Mr. Trump said last week the course would close for construction beginning in November, and it would reopen in 15 months. He later said work would begin “IMMEDIATELY.”

In her ruling Monday, Reyes argued Mr. Trump’s statements about the renovation plans were tough to square with government lawyers’ position that it’s legally too early to challenge the plans in court because there was no final decision.

“Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President,” she wrote. “This started as a case about golf. That good walk spoiled. But it has become much more. It now forces the Court to reconcile assertions by President Donald J. Trump with the sworn testimony of multiple government employees and the argument of senior Department of Justice attorneys.”

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A golfer walks past the stump of a large tree at the East Potomac Golf Links, Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, in Washington. AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein

Reyes said she was initially reluctant to intervene in the case, writing that she “would much prefer not to have to resolve Lorax v. Once‑ler redux” — a reference to an earlier court hearing in which Reyes invoked the Dr. Seuss character to explain why she wasn’t interested in micromanaging the federal government’s tree management efforts.

She said she only intervened “because the Government did what it assured all it would not do,” by chopping down hundreds of trees on the golf course.

Reyes found that the D.C. Preservation League is likely to succeed in showing the Trump administration’s plans for the golf course violate the legal requirement for an environmental review.

She also found that the tree removals were part of Mr. Trump’s renovation plan, rejecting the government’s argument that they were part of an unrelated maintenance effort.

The judge said she did not find statements by the Department of Interior’s deputy chief of staff to be credible, including his description of the agency’s tree management plan as “cleaning up” the course.

CBS News has reached out to the Justice Department and the Department of Interior for comment.

Mr. Trump has feuded with Reyes, calling her a “crazed lunatic.”

Earlier this month, the Trump administration asked Reyes to recuse herself from the case, arguing that she had shown “open hostility” to the government and that her “histrionics in prior hearings have clearly demonstrated she is no longer impartial.”

“To name just a few examples of bias, Judge Reyes has unfairly questioned Trump Administration attorneys’ intelligence, allowed her disdain for the Trump Administration to influence how hearings unfold, and systematically disregarded basic separation of powers principles and Article III constraints on judicial authority,” government attorneys wrote.

Reyes rejected that request and denied that she is biased, listing out compliments that she has paid government lawyers.

“So what happened? Not sudden onset bias,” Reyes wrote in her denial. “Instead, the Government decided to remove over 500 healthy, non-invasive trees from East Potomac Golf Course. It waited until 4:55 p.m. on the Friday of a holiday weekend to give notice that it would begin removing trees within 15 hours. It removed nearly 430 trees in one day and would have destroyed hundreds more but for a rain delay.”

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