Court Orders Slavery Exhibit Restored, Blocking Trump Directive

A federal judge ordered the National Park Service to restore a Philadelphia exhibit documenting the history of enslaved people at the President's House site, overriding the Trump administration's move to block it. The ruling puts the NPS between judicial mandate and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's directive to implement the president's executive order reversing Biden-era changes to federal sites. The court's intervention signals that executive discretion over public commemoration is not absolute.