跟进：三名越战退伍军人诉请法官叫停特朗普250英尺凯旋门：称未经国会批准不得动工，公园管理局称最早11月5日开工
据美联社报道，三名越战退伍军人与一名退休建筑史学家10月22日向美国华盛顿哥伦比亚特区联邦地区法官 Tanya Chutkan 申请初步禁令，要求在诉讼审结前阻止特朗普政府在波托马克河畔 Memorial Circle 兴建高250英尺（约76米）的凯旋门，理由是该项目未经国会批准；此前一天，国家公园管理局（National Park Service，NPS）通知法院，工程最早可能于11月5日动工。
原告在申请中要求法官禁止政府与国家公园管理局在诉讼期间「采取任何步骤建造、或指示或协助建造 Memorial Circle 内的任何建筑物，除非获得国会授权」，并要求法庭不迟于11月4日作出裁定，比政府所称的最早动工日早一天。
国家公园管理局与总统行政办公室10月21日向法院提交的通知称，两机构计划最早于11月5日开始施工，前提是国家首都规划委员会（National Capital Planning Commission，NCPC）当天开会最终批准选址与建筑方案；通知说，待该批准完成、内政部（Department of the Interior）作出授权施工的最终决定并发布相应通知后即可动工，「国家公园管理局最早可能于2026年11月5日发布该通知，施工最早可于同日开始」。
原告在申请文件中说，该通知「清楚表明，被告无意等待法院就双方的简易判决交叉动议作出裁决，并完全打算立即开始在 Memorial Circle 建造凯旋门」。这起诉讼由三名越战退伍军人于今年2月提起，原告主张该项目必须获得国会批准；政府方面则主张，1925年由 Coolidge 总统签署的纪念桥建设法律已授权该建筑，因为最初规划包含桥头的柱廊，原告称这一解读「与该法律的文本完全脱节」。Chutkan 法官此前已命令政府在动工前至少提前14天通知法院；她已命令双方会面，并在10月23日中午前提交陈述时间表。
凯旋门已获得美国美术委员会（U.S. Commission of Fine Arts）的初步批准，该委员会成员均由特朗普任命。原告的代理机构包括公益法律组织 Public Citizen Litigation Group，该组织指出，政府另有多个项目在诉讼未决时仍推进了施工。
凯旋门是特朗普着力推进的首都改造项目之一。本站10月20日报道，内政部已向国家首都规划委员会提交最终方案，凯旋门高250英尺、顶部设长明火炬，定于11月5日审议。特朗普曾表示，该建筑还可能包含无人机与狙击手等国家安全功能；但内政部提交规划委员会的方案并未提及他所称的「军事综合体」，该部仅表示方案可容纳此类功能。
这不是凯旋门面临的唯一一起诉讼：弗吉尼亚州 Arlington 县委员会本月早些时候已向弗吉尼亚东区联邦法院起诉反对该项目，成为首个就这座拟建纪念建筑采取法律行动的政府机构，其诉状批评该项目未经完整审查程序便快速推进；政府方面对这一说法提出异议。
关联：内政部向首都规划委员会提交凯旋门最终方案：高 250 英尺、顶部设长明火炬，11 月 5 日审议
Follow-Up: Three Vietnam Veterans Ask Judge to Block Trump's 250-Foot Triumphal Arch, Saying Congress Never Approved It as Park Service Eyes Nov. 5 Start
Three Vietnam War veterans and a retired architectural historian on October 22 asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C., for a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump administration from building a 250-foot (76-meter) triumphal arch at Memorial Circle along the Potomac River without congressional approval, the Associated Press reported. The filing came one day after the National Park Service told the court that construction could begin as early as November 5.
The plaintiffs asked Chutkan to prohibit the administration and the National Park Service "from taking any steps to construct, or to direct or facilitate construction of, any structure in Memorial Circle, absent congressional authorization, during the pendency of this litigation," and asked the court to rule no later than November 4, one day before the earliest construction date given by the government.
In a notice filed October 21, the National Park Service and the Executive Office of the President said they planned to possibly begin construction as early as November 5, pending final approval of the site and building plans by the National Capital Planning Commission, which is scheduled to meet that day. Construction could begin once that approval was finished, the Interior Department issued a final decision authorizing construction and the proper notification was published, the notice said: "NPS may publish such notice as early as November 5, 2026, and construction could commence as early as November 5, 2026."
The plaintiffs' filing said the notification "makes clear that the defendants have no intention of awaiting this court's decision on the cross-motions for summary judgment and have every intention of imminently beginning construction of the arch on Memorial Circle." The veterans sued in February, arguing the project must be approved by Congress. The administration argues that the 1925 law signed by President Calvin Coolidge providing for construction of Memorial Bridge also authorizes the arch, because the initial plan called for columns at the end of the bridge; the plaintiffs call that reading "entirely untethered" from the text of the 1925 law. Chutkan had previously ordered the government to give at least 14 days' notice before starting work, and she ordered the two sides to meet and file a briefing schedule by noon on October 23.
The arch has received early approval from the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, whose members were all appointed by President Donald Trump. The Public Citizen Litigation Group, one of the legal groups representing the plaintiffs, cited several other projects pursued by the administration that had moved forward with work despite pending lawsuits.
The arch is one of several projects Trump has undertaken as he remakes Washington. GSM reported on October 20 that the Interior Department had submitted final plans for the 250-foot arch, topped by an eternal flame, with planning commission review set for November 5. Trump has said the arch might also include national security functions such as drones and snipers; plans submitted by the Interior Department do not mention the "military complex" he has described, although the agency said the plan could accommodate such a feature.
The Washington lawsuit is one of two challenging construction of the arch. The Arlington County Board in Virginia filed suit earlier this month in the Eastern District of Virginia, becoming the first governmental body to take legal action against the planned monument; that suit criticized the speed at which the project has moved without going through the full review process. The administration disputed that claim.
来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）
图片来源：图：Arlington Memorial Bridge东端的「战争艺术」雕像群，凯旋门拟建于该桥西端Memorial Circle一带（资料图，1989年）。图片：Jet Lowe，美国国家公园管理局历史美国工程记录（HAER）档案，公共领域（Wikimedia Commons）。Photo: The Arts of War statues at the eastern end of Arlington Memorial Bridge; the arch is planned for Memorial Circle at the bridge's Virginia end (file photo, 1989). Credit: Jet Lowe, Historic American Engineering Record / National Park Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
- 2026-10-20 07:49内政部向首都规划委员会提交凯旋门最终方案：高 250 英尺、顶部设长明火炬，11 月 5 日审议
- 2026-10-22 23:13跟进：三名越战退伍军人诉请法官叫停特朗普250英尺凯旋门：称未经国会批准不得动工，公园管理局称最早11月5日开工本篇
