A D.C. nonprofit is suing the Trump administration seeking to halt the resurfacing being done at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
The Cultural Landscape Foundation, an education and advocacy organization, is asking for a temporary preliminary injunction in a lawsuit it filed Monday with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The organization wants to halt the work the Interior Department is doing, saying in the suit that the Trump administration failed to undergo required reviews for changing historic sites before applying a blue tint to the bottom of the pool.
“Every day that the resurfacing continues, the historic character of the Reflecting Pool is being further and fundamentally altered,” the Cultural Landscape Foundation wrote in the lawsuit, which describes the pool as “one of the most iconic designed landscapes in the world.”