A US district judge ordered the Trump administration to restore historical and scientific signs on public monuments that had been removed.
US District Judge Angel Kelley of Massachusetts said the White House’s actions set “a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitisation,” according to the order.
The ruling followed President Donald Trump’s March 2025 executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”
Trump had directed the Secretary of the Interior to review monuments and statues changed after January 2020. The order said officials should examine whether those changes reflected a “false construction of American history.”
A group of conservation organisations sued in February to challenge the removal of signs and interpretive material at historical monuments.
The plaintiffs include the National Parks Conservation Association, the Association of National Park Rangers and the American Association for State and Local History.
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Judge Kelley wrote that the administration sought to remove signs, displays and interpretive exhibits at national parks that did not match its preferred narrative.
The Trump administration has three weeks to comply with the order.
