(AURN News) — The Trump administration removed and altered parts of a Philadelphia exhibit honoring enslaved Africans at the historic President’s House site. A federal judge has now ordered it restored.
On Feb. 16, U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe granted the City of Philadelphia’s request for a preliminary injunction ordering Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and the National Park Service to return the site to how it stood on Jan. 21.
The order blocks any further changes, requires removed materials to be preserved and mandates that the exhibit’s video monitors and displays remain operational and accessible to the public.
The judge said the directive must be carried out forthwith, meaning immediately.
The site, steps from Independence Hall, documents the enslaved people held at the president’s residence and has been viewed as a critical acknowledgment of slavery’s role in the nation’s founding.
As the case continues, the court is drawing a clear line on historical preservation.
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