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Appeals Court Rules Trump Can Reinstall Panels at President's House in Philadelphia

An appeals court rules that the administration of Donald Trump can reinstall interpretive panels at the President’s House site in Philadelphia, allowing the government to replace displays removed under an executive order.The replacement panels acknowledge that nine enslaved people lived in the house with George Washington and Martha Washington and reference abolition and the civil rights movement but omit earlier graphic elements such as a slave-trade route map and a critical headline.Philadelphia officials and advocates seek a pause and say the site must tell a long-suppressed history, while the appeals panel — including judges nominated by Donald Trump, George W. Bush and Barack Obama — sides with the government.
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