Federal Judge Invokes '1984' While Ordering Trump Administration to Restore Slavery Exhibit in Philadelphia Park

Guno צְבִי said:
  • A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore an exhibit about slavery at a National Park site in Philadelphia
  • In January, workers removed 34 panels and video exhibits from an open-air exhibit at The President’s House in Independence National Historical Park
  • The park is the site of the first presidential residence used by George Washington, and the exhibit is a memorial to nine people enslaved by Washington at the time
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore an exhibit about slavery that was removed last month — and cited an infamous warning about totalitarianism in the process.

On Monday, Feb. 16, U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe granted a preliminary injunction in favor of the City of Philadelphia, regarding the federal government's alteration of The President’s House in Independence National Historical Park.


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Federal Judge Invokes '1984' While Ordering Trump Administration to Restore Slavery Exhibit in Philadelphia Park

National Park Service workers were seen dismantling a memorial to enslaved people at The President’s House in January
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Good for her. Think the #TangerineTyrant will take it to SCOTUS?
 
Poor Richard Saunders said:
No. If you bothered to read the ruling it is another district judge upholding the law. The law passed in 1948 allowed the city and the National Park service to enter into an agreement. That law allowed for an agreement in 2006 which allowed the city to create and install an exhibit. The agreement said the exhibit would never be removed without the agreement of the city who paid for the installation. Not only that, the 1950 agreement says that the City retains ownership of all the land and buildings in the National Park. The 1950 agreement says no changes can be made without both the NPS and the city agreeing to it.

The judge is merely upholding the law and the contracts created under that law. Trump is not a king. He can't just ignore the law.


Under the terms of the 1950 Agreement, 2006 Cooperative Agreement and amendments
thereto, and 16 U.S.C. § 407n authorizing the agreements, the City has a statutory right and
expectation to mutual agreement on any changes or alterations to the Park, including the
President’s House, to written agreement for placement of any monument or memorial, and to
consultation on all matters of importance to the Park. Removal of the President’s House displays
invaded this legally protected interest.
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Thank you. Your voice of reason and truth will fall on deaf MAGAT ears, but nevertheless you persist.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Question: Was this display in the least relevant to the history of the NHS in question? After all, Philadelphia and Pennsylvania were never slave owning areas and had no connection to slavery in the US other than the most peripheral one. So, again, what was the relevance of the display to the site in question?
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By this "logic," the parts of Germany that did not host concentration camps, or have populations of Jews/Gypsies/LGBTQ/other "undesirables" should not be teaching about or displaying any Holocaust information.
 
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