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 serious charge. The Court answers it. With the record.”The administration accused Reyes of “histrionics,” hostility toward its attorneys and favoritism toward the plaintiffs, led by the DC Preservation League. Reyes answered each claim with transcripts from past hearings.In a footnote, Reyes noted that “histrionic” comes from the Latin word for actor, writing that she was “reminded of Hamlet’s advice to the players: ‘Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.’”The suit challenges the administration’s work on the historic public course in Washington. President Donald Trump said on Truth Social that the...