Politics
Legal Updates and Senate Building Restoration
A federal judge dismissed a case against a former Olympian accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The Supreme Court agreed to hear a zoning dispute over a Kentucky church shrine. Additionally, a major restoration project is underway for the Hart Senate Office Building's Calder sculpture.
Coverage timeline — 3 articles
The Hill
A mountain-sized sculpture inside the Hart Senate Office Building is getting a major — and moving — cutting-edge upgrade. Mountains and Clouds, the massive installation by Alexander Calder that fills much of the building's atrium, is undergoing a restoration effort that will include, for the first t
2026-10-01 15:37 UTC
The Hill
A dispute over whether a local zoning ordinance in Kentucky that prohibited a Catholic church from building a religious shrine next to its property is legal is headed to the Supreme Court. The justices agreed Thursday to take up the request from Missionaries of St. John the Baptist, a church in th
2026-10-01 15:42 UTC
The Hill
The federal case against a former Olympian accused by the Trump administration of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is officially dead after a Washington, D.C., judge ruled Thursday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) cannot try to charge him again in the future. Superior Court Judge To
2026-10-01 15:44 UTC