Kennedy Family Tries to Intervene to Fight Trump Arch Blockade | Today’s news

Members of the Kennedy family are seeking to intervene in a legal battle to block the construction of the Arc de Triomphe in Washington, which has been pushed by President Donald Trump, saying it would interfere with the memorial graves of family members – including JFK’s eternal flame.

In a motion filed Tuesday, lawyers representing the children and grandchildren of the late President John F. Kennedy’s brothers, Robert and Edward Kennedy, asked a federal judge to join a lawsuit seeking to block the proposed monument.

Plans for the “Independence Arch” show it would be 250 feet tall and built in Memorial Circle, which would block the line of sight between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, according to the filing. Three Kennedy brothers are buried in the cemetery.

The arch would block the line of sight between Kennedy’s graves, including the eternal flame, and the Arlington Memorial Bridge, “and will permanently cast a shadow over the graves of servicemen and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice for this country,” the filing said. The Eternal Flame is a memorial to John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated as president in 1963.

A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the intervention proposal.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan last week temporarily blocked the Trump administration from “beginning, conducting or otherwise conducting any construction, excavation, demolition, soil disturbance, utility installation or roadway closure or any other construction-related activity” in connection with the arch for two weeks.

Chutkan consolidated lawsuits from Virginia and the District of Columbia and others filed by a group of Vietnam War veterans challenging the construction of the arch at the site.

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