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Shaken Trump DOJ begs to ditch judge who grilled officials over razed golf course trees

The Trump administration is scrambling to dump a federal judge days before its top officials must answer her questions under oath. In a motion filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the Justice Department asked that Judge Ana C. Reyes be disqualified from a lawsuit over the National Park Service's removal of trees at…

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