联邦法官启动对东波托马克公园案的调查，聚焦司法部潜在渎职行为一名联邦法官已启动调查，以查明特朗普政府在关于特朗普总统意图重新开发东波托马克高尔夫球场的持续法律诉讼中，是否向她撒了谎。
Judge opens East Potomac Park probe into potential DOJ misconduct A federal judge has opened an investigation into concerns that the Trump administration lied to her in the ongoing legal battle over President Trump’s desire to redevelop East Potomac Golf Links.
周五的听证会成为美国地区法官安娜·雷耶斯与司法部（DOJ）之间最新一次激烈的法庭交锋。司法部多次对法官的提问路线提出异议，并反驳任何关于信息被不当隐瞒的暗示。
Friday’s hearing became the latest fiery courtroom clash between U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes and the Department of Justice (DOJ), which repeatedly took issue with the judge’s lines of questioning and pushed back on any suggestion that information was wrongly withheld.
“法庭将启动正式调查，以查明机构官员和雇员（包括机构律师和司法部律师）是否向法庭作出了虚假陈述，或以其他方式违反了职业道德规则，”该法官表示。
“The court will open a formal inquiry into whether agency officials and employees, including agency attorneys and DOJ attorneys, have made misrepresentations to the court and otherwise violated ethical rules,” the judge said.
一个文物保护团体和当地高尔夫球手提起诉讼，旨在阻止对东波托马克公园进行大规模重新开发。该公园长期以来是首都边缘一座公共高尔夫球场的所在地。特朗普曾多次表示希望将其重新开发为一座锦标赛级别的球场，并在近期称该场地将于11月15日起关闭，以便推进该项目。
A preservationist group and local golfers are suing to stop major redevelopments at East Potomac Park, the longtime home of a public golf course along the edge of the nation’s capital. Trump has repeatedly expressed a desire to redevelop it into a championship-style course, and in recent days, he has said the site will close beginning Nov. 15 so the project can proceed.
总统的言论——以及近期砍伐数百棵树木的举动——升级了这场法律斗争。
The president’s comments — and recent work to cut down hundreds of trees — have escalated the legal fight.
在雷耶斯法官法庭最近的一系列听证会上，这位由前总统拜登任命的法官，多次严厉斥责司法部律师关于项目状态的陈述，暗示他们告诉法庭的情况与实际不同，且不应轻信总统的话。
In a flurry of recent hearings in Reyes’s courtroom, the judge whom former President Biden appointed has repeatedly torn into DOJ attorneys about their representations on the status of the project, suggesting they were telling her something different and not to believe the president.
周五，雷耶斯首先提醒司法部第三号官员斯坦利·伍德沃德，作为在法庭执业的律师，他必须遵守职业道德规则。双方争论持续，法官在某一时刻告诉伍德沃德“在内部把这个想法想完”，并“和朋友喝酒时再谈”。伍德沃德在另一时刻反驳道：“我们不是在电视上，我也不是评论员。”他还暗示，法官的部分质询受行政特权保护。
Reyes began on Friday by reminding the DOJ’s No. 3 official, Stanley Woodward, about professional ethics rules he is bound to follow as an attorney practicing before the court. As they continued to spar, the judge at one point told Woodward to “finish that thought internally” and to “talk about it at drinks with your friends.”“We’re not on TV. I’m not a pundit,” Woodward pushed back at another point, also suggesting some of the judge’s questioning was blocked under executive privilege.
法官宣布启动调查，原因是她得知政府一直在努力将重新设计计划提交给国家首都规划委员会，该委员会审查华盛顿地区的重大政府项目。雷耶斯对司法部此前未告知她此事表示沮丧。她说，她将亲自进行调查，或指定一名特别主事官进行调查。
The judge announced she was opening the investigation after learning that the government has been working to submit the redesign plan to the National Capital Planning Commission, which examines major government projects in the Washington area. Reyes expressed frustration that the DOJ hadn’t previously told her about it. She said she’ll conduct the investigation herself or appoint a special master to do so.
目前，法官已限制高尔夫球场进一步清除树木，并实施了新的通知要求，但尚未直接禁止计划中的关闭。“信任但核实……不再适用，”雷耶斯警告政府。
As of now, the judge has restricted further tree-clearing at the golf course and has implemented new notice requirements, but she hasn’t yet outright blocked the planned closure. “Trust but verify … no longer,” Reyes warned the government.