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Fed Judge Rules George Washington Home Must Call Him a Racist Because of “Harm and Anxiety”
Front Page Magazine ^ | 02/17/2026 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 02/17/2026 5:05:55 AM PST by DFG

Another day, another federal judge has a full-blown ‘resistance’ mental breakdown.

We’ve had some spectacular ones so far, usually from elderly liberal judges, like this one from an 85-year-old judge who included handwritten rants and pictures in his rulings.

The latest one comes from 77-year-old Cynthia Rufe who begins her ‘ruling’ with a quote from George Orwell’s 1984. Good move for outraged freshman compositions, usually indicative of a mental breakdown among federal judges.

Rufe then compares Trump to Big Brother for trying to take down the hateful DEI racist rants plastered across museums including, in this case, George Washington’s home when the Orwellians were the ones trying to brainwash people with those rants.

“This Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims—to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not,” Rufe rants.

The federal government has to power to decide what goes in the museums it controls. Rufe has no objection to Obama and Biden doing it which means her basis for objecting to Trump doing it is pure partisan politics.

Nor is there any legal basis for her objections or her ruling.

“The President’s House is a component of Independence National Historical Park that commemorates the site of the first official presidential residence and the people who lived there, including people enslaved by President George Washington. On January 22, 2026, the National Park Service (“NPS”) removed panels, displays, and video exhibits that referenced slavery and information about the individuals enslaved at the President’s House.”

According to her Democrat allies, Judge Rufe argues that, “Members of the Democratic Caucus of the Senate of Pennsylvania warn of irreparable harm to their constituents because “this sudden loss of rich history and Defendants’ rejection of the true historical narratives about black history in America is causing deep constituent harm and anxiety.”

And so the National Park Service isn’t allowed to change the contents of exhibits because of “irreparable harm” and “harm and anxiety”.

Judge Rufe rants that “the government claims it alone has the power to erase, alter, remove and hide historical accounts on taxpayer and local government-funded monuments within its control. Its claims in this regard echo Big Brother’s domain in Orwell’s 1984.”

She actually does believe that. But by the government she means herself and her allies.

We all know that this wouldn’t work the other way and it’s past time that the administration stopped following the worthless rulings of deranged federal judges who are drunk on their own power and rage.

This kind of behavior is part of the reason why we launched the Judicial Accountability Project to hold federal judges accountable.


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1 posted on 02/17/2026 5:05:55 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

White woman signaling her virtue.


2 posted on 02/17/2026 5:07:59 AM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: DFG

Let us honor George Washington by showing what a low down, flesh trader he was!


3 posted on 02/17/2026 5:10:38 AM PST by Az Joe (Hey Minnesota, FAFO)
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To: DFG

Retire already.


4 posted on 02/17/2026 5:13:09 AM PST by sauropod
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To: DFG
Historical note:
Everyone alive at the time -- not just slaveholders -- even including anti-slavery agitators -- were racist by current year standards
5 posted on 02/17/2026 5:13:15 AM PST by Salman (Trump is good, but we need Pinochet. )
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To: DFG

The fragility of people today is not indicative of the history of Americans. What has happened to soften them up so? I thing it is estrogen in the food supply.


6 posted on 02/17/2026 5:16:39 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: DFG

I’ll say it again.

The 19th Amendment was a terrible mistake.

L


7 posted on 02/17/2026 5:17:03 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: DFG

Why does anyone pay any attention to these useless insane wastes of skin...


8 posted on 02/17/2026 5:17:54 AM PST by Democrat = party of treason
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To: DFG

People like her just cannot think about or imagine where they would be today if it weren’t for people like George Washington.


9 posted on 02/17/2026 5:20:03 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: DFG

Another DEI one no wonder the system is going to hell.


10 posted on 02/17/2026 5:20:52 AM PST by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: DFG

” by “The Government” she means herself and her [ideological] allies “

Troof


11 posted on 02/17/2026 5:21:31 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (The Democrats' official policy is now, “Hate, Violence and Murder". Change my mind.)
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To: Az Joe
IMHO we should remind people over and over that George Washington freed his slaves in the only legal manner possible: in his will. Virginia law didn't allow one to free his slaves if he had debt (slaves were considered part of the estate). The Virginia law had an exception, and that was you could free them in your will.

That's what Washington did, before his adversary, King George III, freed slaves (1804 England freed slaves in their homeland, but not the rest of the empire).

In the end, Washington freed more slaves than he bought. Most of his slaves came to him through inheritance, marriage, as debt payment, or natural increase (children born to slaves). He bought 71 slaves, but freed 123 slaves.

12 posted on 02/17/2026 5:22:13 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: DFG

The Biden Admin took down statues of Confederate heroes and renamed military bases. Because Democrat presidents are allowed to do stuff.


13 posted on 02/17/2026 5:23:57 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Law and Order -- only one of our political parties believes in it.)
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To: Salman

:: were racist by current year standards ::

John Quincy Adams, to his father: “Dad, you can’t just GIVE them identification papers. They’re ... they’re ... JAMAICAN!”


14 posted on 02/17/2026 5:24:27 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (The Democrats' official policy is now, “Hate, Violence and Murder". Change my mind.)
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To: Salman

Every person must be judged within the context of his/her times.

It’s a rather simple principle.
But it doesn’t help the argument of race hustlers.
So they ignore it.

Oh, and here’s something interesting. Whether you agree or not, Martin Luther King wrote about homosexuality being a mental disorder. Funny how the left gives him a pass on that. They understand he was writing within the context of his times.


15 posted on 02/17/2026 5:27:40 AM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: DFG

This explains a lot...

https://www.law.buffalo.edu/history/oral-history/oral-history-host-page.host.html/content/shared/law/oral-histories/interviews/individual-interviews/hon-cynthia-n-rufe-77.detail.html


16 posted on 02/17/2026 5:29:13 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: DFG

And so the National Park Service isn’t allowed to change the contents of exhibits because of “irreparable harm” and “harm and anxiety”. Sweetheart I don’t feel any of that.


17 posted on 02/17/2026 5:32:20 AM PST by kawhill (Dywedwch Wrthym + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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To: DFG

AWFUL


18 posted on 02/17/2026 5:35:46 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: DFG

How is it when protesters in Minneapolis are not bound by the law and sanctuary cites and states across the nation are not bound by Federal law, that the Trump administration feels it is bound by Federal judge law? When will the administration tell the judges to go to hell. All it does is give these loons the green light to completely defeat the electoral will of the American voter.


19 posted on 02/17/2026 5:37:37 AM PST by odawg
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To: DFG

I thought a judge could only issue an order if it’s based on constitutional law.

I just did a quick check. I couldn’t find “harm and anxiety” mentioned anywhere in the Constitution. I dunno. Maybe I didn’t check good enough.
🤔


20 posted on 02/17/2026 5:40:04 AM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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