At an October 19 hearing in Washington, Judge Ana Reyes pressed government lawyers on whether they misled her about removing more than 500 trees from a public golf course, and said there appeared to be a strong showing of bad faith. She had denied a Justice Department motion to recuse her for alleged political bias overnight, calling it an attempt to weaponize selective quotations, and President Trump then attacked her on social media. Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, who signed the department’s briefs alone, clashed with her over his instruction that attorneys not answer one of her questions, and she ordered him to explain it in writing.

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