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Judge will proceed with inquiry despite DOJ lawyers’ objection to special-master review

The park-closure fight is not the only issue in the golf-course case. The judge is also moving ahead with an inquiry into whether agency officials and employees, including DOJ lawyers, misled the court or violated ethics rules. On Oct. 31, she said she intended to appoint a special master to help with the inquiry. The Trump administration’s attorneys objected to a special master reviewing their conduct, but the latest report says the inquiry will proceed despite that objection. It leaves a separate accountability question running alongside the dispute over the park’s closure.

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