The Trump administration plans to close the East Potomac Golf Course and park Nov. 15 with the intention of renovating the facility.

A federal judge said Saturday she intends to appoint an ex-top federal prosecutor in the nation’s capital during Donald Trump’s first term to investigate whether she was purposefully misled by lawyers and administration officials in a lawsuit challenging one of his prized Washington construction projects, the renovation of a historic public golf course along the Potomac River.

Jessie Liu, a former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, would examine whether officials with the Interior Department and the National Park Service and attorneys with the Department of Justice violated ethics or misled U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes during the course of the case that was initiated in February by the DC Preservation League and two golfers.

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    8 hours ago

    Must you be young to be hopeful? We know that ALL social media is crawling with division bots that inflame all sides of every narrative. I’m trying to remind myself that when I feel cynical about the future, that’s my cue to log off.