As if the Ministry of Reality in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed, with its motto ‘Ignorance is Power,’ this Courtroom is now requested to find out whether or not the federal authorities has the ability it claims—to dissemble and disassemble historic truths when it has some area over historic information. It doesn’t.
— Choose Cynthia M. Rufe granting the Metropolis of Philadelphia a preliminary injunction holding the federal authorities should restore signage, shows and movies on the President’s Home website in Philly that debate the slaves that George Washington owned at that location. Attorneys for the Trump administration argued, “the federal government will get to decide on the message it desires to convey.” Judge Rufe was not impressed with the efforts to memory-hole slavery, characterizing it as “harmful” and “horrifying” throughout oral arguments.