Massachusetts Judge Orders Trump To Put Leftist Propaganda Back Up At National Parks
In her 63-page ruling, Kelley did not hide her political activism or eagerness to defend promoting woke agendas at taxpayer-funded national parks.
A federal judge on Friday ordered President Donald Trump to reinstate national park signs that promoted left-wing talking points about things like climate change, condemnation of American historical figures, and LGBT ideology after the administration ordered their removal.
Biden-appointed Judge Angel Kelley of Massachusetts ordered that the signs and other material be restored by July 3, the day before America’s 250th birthday.
Trump began the removal in March 2025 with an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” This order criticizes the Biden administration for its “corrosive ideology” that characterizes the United States as “inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed.” The order directed the U.S. Department of the Interior to ensure markers and memorials overseen by the DOI “do not contain descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”
Several organizations, including the National Parks Conservation Association and the American Association for State and Local History, brought a lawsuit to counter these efforts, which they characterized as “erasure of American history and science.” Democracy Forward, a leftist-aligned legal organization, represented these clients and others.
The ruling identifies signage removed after Trump’s order, including “portions” of exhibits at Grand Canyon National Park portraying “settlers, cattle ranchers, and tourists as negatively impacting the land for their own benefit.” A sign that included a pride flag at Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument and various signs warning about things like man-made climate change and “air pollution” were also removed, according to Kelley.
One sign at Muir Woods National Monument stated: “ALERT: HISTORY UNDER CONSTRUCTION.” The poster — which was plastered to a trail sign describing the park’s heritage — highlighted “the racist ideology of many people who helped to protect this place.” Another edit to the original trail marker specifically criticized the park’s namesake, John Muir, for using “racist language” in his diary. These annotations, which were removed after a Federalist inquiry, are among the signs that will likely be reinstated under Kelley’s ruling.
In her 63-page ruling, Kelley did not hide her political activism or eagerness to defend promoting woke agendas at taxpayer-funded national parks.
“From the echoes of abolition in John Brown’s Fort in Harpers Ferry, to the genesis of the modern LGBTQ+ civil rights movement at the Stonewall National Monument, to the retreating ice of Glacier National Park in Alaska, the National Parks preserve the multifaceted and multi-layered history of our Nation, including the good, the bad, and the ugly,” she wrote before lecturing the Trump administration on its “responsibility to present history in full.” --->READ MORE HERE
Biden-appointed judge orders Trump to restore slavery, climate change references at national parks
Interior Department rebukes 'liberal activist judge' for forcing admin to restore 'improper partisan ideology'
A Biden-appointed federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore exhibits and other materials at national parks that highlighted slavery, climate change and other leftist ideology after they were removed under a directive targeting displays deemed disparaging to America.
U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley in Massachusetts, appointed to the federal bench by former President Joe Biden in 2021, issued a preliminary injunction Friday requiring the administration to reverse the changes and pause any further removals amid legal challenges.
The move comes amid the America 250 celebrations that will crescendo on July 4.
The Interior Department in a statement called Kelley a "liberal activist judge" and said it was reviewing its options to appeal its removal of what Secretary Doug Burgum rebuked as "improper partisan ideology."
"This ruling is from a liberal activist judge," an Interior spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Sunday. "The Department will look at our appeal options while we celebrate UFC Freedom 250 on the South Lawn of the White House this weekend in honor of our nation’s 250th with the greatest president in the history of our country – President Donald J. Trump."
Trump’s March 27, 2025 executive order, "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," sought to restore American heritage to national parks and monuments that were "changed to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history" after the race riots of 2020 that might have ultimately helped fuel Biden's election.
Trump ordered Interior to "take action, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law," to ensure that all U.S. government descriptions and depictions do not "inappropriately disparage Americans past or living" – instead putting "focus on the greatness" of America.
While Kelley wrote that the plaintiffs had shown the administration’s actions were meant "to rewrite the Nation’s history with a white-out pen," Trump said he had issued the order because of the "false reconstruction" of U.S. history under Biden, the president who appointed her. --->READ MORE HERE
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