New lawsuit challenges Trump’s planned 'National Garden of American Heroes'

President Donald Trump’s attempt to reshape the Washington, D.C., landscape hit another potential roadblock Monday after a group of preservation and cultural heritage organizations filed a federal lawsuit challenging his proposed construction of a “National Garden of American Heroes” in West Potomac Park. 

The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, accuses the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service of ignoring a congressional decree that "no new 'commemorative work' shall be located within 'the great cross-axis of the Mall,' an area that includes West Potomac Park."

"The West Potomac Plan is unlawful. Congress has made clear that the National Mall is a 'substantially completed work of civic art' – not a personal sandbox for each President to renovate however he likes," the suit says, in part.