Posted on 11/10/2026 4:03:30 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Members of the Kennedy family called President Donald Trump's plans for a 250-foot arch. close to the Arlington National Cemetery a 'permanent denigration' of their relatives' grave sites, in a court filing Tuesday.
The filing to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by late Senator Robert F. Kennedy's children called for an injunction on the work planned by the Trump administration to build the arch. on a traffic circle between the cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial.
The family argued that the arch. would cast shadows that would fall on the grave sites of Senator Kennedy, President John F. Kennedy, and other relatives. They also said a view the former president enjoyed so much would be lost.
"That constitutes nothing less than a permanent denigration of the Kennedy Gravesites and the final resting place for Plaintiffs’ parents and grandparents," they wrote in the filing.
On November 5, a judge temporarily blocked construction following legal challenges. Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment Tuesday evening.
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No shadow is going to fall from the Arch, over Kennedy’s grave.
It is on a hill some distance from the site of the arch
There is no arch yet.
It’s a plan; it doesn’t exist yet.
I have no problem with the new ball room at the White House - we’ve needed it for a long time.
I’m not sure the arch is necessary or important right now.
No way its shadow would reach Kennedy’s grave.
All great nations have celebrated with monumental architecture.
It’s trite political maneuvering on the part of the Kennedys.
But why do we need what seems to aspire to being a ‘triumphal arch’?
We have monuments all over D.C. attesting to our various triumphs.
Do people think shadows are forever?? The furthest this arch would cast is about 450 ft....and it's of course always changing.
Jefferson would love it.
Doesn’t meant they are wrong to oppose the arch.
“”They also said a view the former president enjoyed so much would be lost.””
Someone is smoking some pretty good stuff...the president wouldn’t have had a view unless he climbed to the top of the WH to see Arlington..How in the dickens does anyone know he ever gave a thought to that view?
Why do we need an arch again? So Trump goes to France and sees theirs and thinks we need one? That’s kind of nuts.
Are we going to tear down blocks of buildings in DC because Red Square is cool?
If this is what you are thinking about when you are up all night, Don….skip the Diet Cokes and go to bed with your wife.
And it’s called leftism.
It’s (D)ifferent, don’t cha know
Additionally President Trump should order "The Eternal Flame" quenched and disconnected for the sake of emissions, the good of the environment, and to fight global warming.
Given the two coordinates, 38.885717695995275, -77.05998193642739, which has a 30’ elevation and 38.881692684156675, -77.07153635752812 (having 149’ elevation), the entirety the shadow of a 150’wide x 75’tall obstruction at the NE location would always lie below the horizon as seen from the SW point, thus it would never intersect the line of sight to the sun.
The angular elevation from the top of an obstruction at the NE point is negative (~-0.7°), so it would produce no shade on the SW coordinate under any solar conditions.
The Arch is more than 1/2 mile away
How so?
Arlington has a Confederate memorial and Confederates buried there. It’s for all of us, not one side or the other.
Having been to Kennedy’s grave a couple times I have exclaimed more than once “What an amazing view of the Potomac, to the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Memorial “
I thought i read the arch was gonna be for security reasons?
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It is. DC is much more secure with another obstacle along the northern flight path into Reagan Int’l Airport. The others aren’t tall enough or close enough to Reagan. /s
Trump’s ego didn’t help the Repugs in the last election, so let’s build a monument to it.
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