A federal judge has halted Donald Trump’s plans to build a presidential library in his adopted home state of Florida.
Judge Mavel Ruiz of Florida’s 11th Judicial Circuit temporarily froze the transfer of land from a college to the state, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Local historian Marvin Dunn filed the lawsuit, arguing that the public did not receive proper notice about plans to convert 2.6 acres of Miami Dade College land into a fawning monument celebrating Trump’s time in office.
Dunn’s lawsuit claims that the Miami Dade College Board of Trustees violated Florida law by failing to provide adequate public notice of its intent to sell the land, which is valued at roughly $67 million.
The board voted on Sept. 23 to transfer the land, currently used as a parking lot, to the st