White House Asks for New Reflecting Pool Prosecution

“White House officials have asked the Justice Department to consider a new prosecution of a man accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, as President Trump fumes over U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s decision to drop the case,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“A new prosecution of the defendant, Olympic canoeist David Hearn, would be highly unusual, especially after Pirro told a judge in surprising detail that the government’s decision to indict him on a felony charge was ill-informed. Pirro said a botched renovation, not vandalism, was responsible for the reflecting pool’s problems.”

The Guardian: White House pushes to revive reflecting pool case against Olympian.