Virginia and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in federal court Saturday in a last-ditch effort to stop the construction of the triumphal arch planned for Memorial Circle in Washington.
The Trump administration has said it plans to begin construction of the arch next week, on Nov. 5.
“The construction of the Arch will inflict immediate and irreparable harm on the District and Virginia,” Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones and D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb wrote in the lawsuit. “The Arch is slated to be built on a busy traffic circle that abuts the border between the jurisdictions, at the center
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