Federal Judge Exposes Dangerous Overreach in Justice Department’s Attempt to Rewrite American History

In a striking courtroom confrontation that reveals the dangerous politicization of America’s historical narrative, Senior U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe sharply rebuked the Justice Department for claiming the Trump Administration can dictate what history is shown at National Park Service sites. The backdrop: an abrupt removal of a slavery exhibit at the site of George Washington’s presidential mansion on Independence Mall in Philadelphia. The exhibit, created over two decades ago with cooperation between the city and the Park Service, honored nine enslaved individuals by name—Austin, Paris, Hercules, Christopher Sheels, Richmond, Giles, Oney Judge, Moll, and Joe—and shared newly uncovered stories...