A Biden-appointed federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore exhibits and other materials at national parks that highlighted slavery, climate change and other leftist ideology after they were removed under a directive targeting displays deemed disparaging to America.U.S.District Judge Angel Kelley in Massachusetts, appointed to the federal bench by former President Joe Biden in 2021, issued a preliminary injunction Friday requiring the administration to reverse the changes and pause any further removals amid legal challenges.The move comes amid the America 250 celebrations that will crescendo on July 4.The Interior Department in a statement called Kelley a "liberal activist judge" and said it was reviewing its options to appeal its removal of what Secretary Doug Burgum rebuked as "improper partisan ideology."'ACTIVIST' JUDGES KEEP TRYING TO CURB TRUMP’S AGENDA – HERE’S HOW HE COULD PUSH BACKInterior Secretary Doug Burgum and President Donald Trump sought to remove 'improper partisan ideology,' but a former President Joe Biden judge rebuked as a 'liberal activist' has ordered them to restore it.
(Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)Trump’s March 27, 2025 executive order, "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," sought to restore American heritage to national parks and monuments that were "changed to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history" after the race riots of 2020 that might have ultimately helped fuel Biden's election.Trump ordered Interior to "take action, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law," to ensure that all U.S.government descriptions, depictions do not "inappropriately disparage Americans past or living" – instead putting "focus on the greatness" of America.While Kelley wrote that the plaintiffs had shown the administration’s actions were meant "to rewrite the Nation’s history with a white-out pen," Trump said he had issued the order because of the "false reconstruction" of U.S.
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