Judge orders restoration of national park plaques removed under Trump directive

Officials given 21 days to comply with order after Angel Kelley condemns administration for ‘telling half-truths’

A US district court judge has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate any history or science materials it removed from the nation’s public monuments, https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.296214/gov.uscourts.mad.296214.41.0.pdf">finding that the White House’s actions “set a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization”.

In March 2025, Donald Trump https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/">signed an executive order titled “restoring truth and sanity to American history”, calling upon the secretary of interior to examine monuments, memorials and statues to see if they had been altered after January 2020 to represent a “false construction of American history”.