华盛顿——弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿县委员会于周四提起诉讼，反对凯旋门的建设，成为首个对美国总统唐纳德·特朗普计划修建的这座纪念碑采取法律行动的政府机构。
WASHINGTON — The Arlington County Board in Virginia filed a lawsuit Thursday opposing the construction of the Triumphal Arch, becoming the first governmental body to take legal action against President Donald Trump’s planned monument.
这起诉讼是在弗吉尼亚州东区联邦地区法院提起的，诉讼批评了原定在纪念圈（Memorial Circle）修建该项目推进的速度过快，且没有经过完整的审查程序。
The lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, criticized the speed at which the project slated for Memorial Circle has moved without going through the full review process.
诉讼指出：“国家公园管理局作为负责国家公园土地（如纪念圈）项目的机构，正全速推进会破坏地表环境的建设。尽管该机构声称尚未做出建造该拱门的最终决定，并宣称正在进行例行的决策程序，但这种仓促的程序似乎只是一个借口，旨在为按照总统的一再指令建造凯旋门提供合理的依据。”诉讼要求制止“该机构急于建设凯旋门的狂热步伐”，以确保遵守《国家环境政策法》的要求，并进行适当的分析和测试。
“The National Park Service, the agency responsible for projects on national park land such as Memorial Circle, is proceeding full-speed toward ground-disturbing construction,” the lawsuit said. “Although the agency has claimed that a final decision to construct the Arch has not yet been made and purports to be engaged in a routine decisional process, that rushed process appears to be a pretext designed to shore up justifications for building the Arch in accordance with the President’s repeated marching orders.”The lawsuit asks that “the agency’s feverish pace toward construction of the arch” be halted to ensure that the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act be followed and proper analysis and testing be done.
阿灵顿县委员会主席马特·德·费兰蒂在一份声明中表示：“阿灵顿县委员会提起这起诉讼，是因为我们的社区在这个令人震惊且违法的拟议项目中损失最大。”他补充说，该县在审查过程中一直表现出诚意，并指出该项目将对该县及其居民产生“严重、独特且广泛的负面影响”，但这些影响却被置若罔闻。
“The Arlington County Board has filed this lawsuit because our community has the most to lose from this egregious and unlawful proposed project,” Arlington County Board Chair Matt de Ferranti said in a statement. He added that the county has acted in good faith in the review process, pointing out the “severe, unique, and wide-ranging negative impacts” the project will have on the county and its residents, only to see them ignored.
该县在诉讼中由法律维权团体“推进民主”（Democracy Forward）代表。白宫和内政部没有立即回应置评请求。
The county is being represented in the lawsuit by legal advocacy group Democracy Forward. The White House and Interior Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
诉讼发生在航空乘务员协会-美国劳工联合会（CWA）主席萨拉·纳尔逊（Sara Nelson）表达担忧的第二天，她指出这座250英尺（76米）的拱门涉及多项安全问题，而这些问题自2025年1月在波托马克河上空发生的致命坠机事故（导致67人死亡）以来一直未得到解决。纳尔逊还批评特朗普的计划，称将拱门改造成“高级军事综合体”，能够容纳无人机和狙击手并储存弹药。
The lawsuit comes just a day after Association of Flight Attendants-CWA President Sara Nelson expressed concerns that the 250-foot (76-meter) arch compounds multiple safety issues that she said have gone unaddressed since a deadly January 2025 crash over the Potomac River that killed 67 people. Nelson also criticized Trump’s plan to turn the arch into “a top grade military complex” able to host drones and snipers while storing ammunition.
尽管该拱门已获得美国美术委员会的早期批准，而该委员会的成员全部由特朗普任命，但三名退伍军人和一位建筑史学家在华盛顿特区联邦法院提起诉讼，称该项目需要国会批准。
Though the arch has received early approval from the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, whose members were all tapped by Trump, a group of three veterans and an architectural historian sued in federal court in Washington, D.C., saying the project needs to be approved by Congress.
拱门是特朗普在改造华盛顿过程中开展的多个项目之一，包括翻新该市历史悠久的公共高尔夫球场以及威胁拆除约翰·F·肯尼迪表演艺术中心。
The arch is one of several projects around Washington that Trump has undertaken as he remakes the city, from renovating one of its storied public golf courses to threatening to demolish the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.