The cases involved are an impending shutdown and reconfiguration of a historic public golf course and the construction of the monumental arch that, at 250 feet, would be 100 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty is from its base to the top of the torch.

The administration says the arch fulfills the “historic design intent” of a proposal from the 1920s. But does it honor history or flout it?

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