Judge Halts Land Transfer for Planned Trump Presidential Library in Downtown Miami

A Florida judge has paused the transfer of a downtown Miami lot slated to become the site of the Trump Presidential Library, ruling that the process violated the state’s transparency law. In an order issued on Nov. 3, Judge Mavel Ruiz of Florida’s 11th Judicial Circuit granted an emergency injunction requested by historian and activist Marvin Dunn, who sued to stop Miami Dade College from handing over a 2.6-acre parcel next to Miami’s iconic Freedom Tower to the state of Florida. The land was expected to be turned over to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation. But Ruiz found that Miami Dade College’s board of trustees failed to give the public adequate notice of its intent to do so under Florida’s Sunshine Law, a set of statutes that generally mandates government business to be conducted in open and properly noticed meetings....