A Florida judge has temporarily blocked the planned transfer of a significant parcel of downtown Miami land for Donald Trump’s future presidential library.
The Tuesday move by Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz came after a Miami activist alleged that officials at Miami Dade College violated Florida’s open government law when they gifted the sizable plot of real estate to the state, which then voted to transfer it to the foundation for President Trump’s planned library.
CBS News reports:
“This is not an easy decision,” Ruiz said Tuesday when explaining her ruling from the bench.
“This is not a case, at least for this court, rooted in politics,” she added.
Marvin Dunn, an activist and chronicler of local Black history, filed a lawsuit this month in a Miami-Dade County court against the Board of Trustees for Miami Dade College, a state-run school that owned the property.
He alleges that the board violated Florida’s Government in the Sunshine law by not providing sufficient notice for its special meeting on Sept. 23, when it voted to give up the land.
Richard Brodsky, an attorney for Dunn, said the issue before the court was not a question of politics, but whether the public board followed the open government law.
“The people have a right to know what they’re going to decide to do when the transaction is so significant, so unusual and deprives the students and the college of this land,” Brodsky said.
The nearly 3-acre property is valued at more than $67 million, according to a 2025 assessment by the Miami-Dade County property appraiser.
One real estate expert estimated that the parcel—one of the last undeveloped lots on an iconic stretch of palm tree-lined Biscayne Boulevard—could sell for hundreds of millions of dollars more.
There always seems to be a “Democrat Judge” every time.
That means, another case that will have to go to the Supreme Court, where it will be decided in Trump’s favor
More taxpayer money wasted!! Someone please stop this nonsense.
Miami is a poor choice for locating the library. If it must be in Florida pick a site on the north end so people can visit it without traveling to crime infested Miami. Make it accessible to more Americans.
Damn Swamp vs Trump
Getting tired of this Game
Democrats could not defeat Trump and his ideas at the ballot box so they are using lawfare to thwart him. These are sick people! They are fighting the will of a majority of Americans.