When George Washington lived in the President’s House in Philadelphia, at that time the nation’s capital, he consistently focused on setting rightful constitutional precedents. One thing our first president didn’t have to worry about was having lower federal court judges issue rulings that professed to bind the entire nation. Now, as the Trump administration seeks to replace a woke exhibit at the President’s House Site that made Washington the most heavily criticized individual at Independence Park, its efforts are being blocked by a lone federal judge who sits in New England, far from Philadelphia.
The President’s House exhibit, opened by the National Park Service under President Obama, was spearheaded by the Avenging the Ancestors Coalition and other leftist activists. ATAC (pronounced “attack”) has sponsored “Anti-July Fourth Day” events, and its founder, Michael Coard, speaks of “the 1776 birth of the racist American nation” and calls those who celebrate July 4 “traitors” who “embrace whiteness.”
