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Trump DOJ gets Hamlet thrown in its face after failing to boot judge in golf course case

A federal judge on Sunday rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to disqualify her from a lawsuit over East Potomac Golf Course, turning the government’s own courtroom record against it. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes denied the motion in a blistering 13-page opinion. “The Government now seeks to disqualify the Court for bias,” she wrote . “That is a…

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