Olympic canoeist charged by Pirro seeks to permanently sink Reflecting Pool case

Attorneys for the former Olympic canoeist the Trump administration had charged in a felony Reflecting Pool case are seeking to permanently bar any effort to resurface what they called a “politically motivated prosecution” of their client. The case against David “Davey” Hearn was “motivated by political considerations and devoid of adequate factual support,” his attorneys said in a filing Tuesday, adding that the Justice Department “has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to seek or reinstate criminal charges to satisfy the President, irrespective of the law or facts.” The “sprint to charge” Hearn, they wrote, “mirrored the expedited timeline to complete the Pool renovations” that led to the damage in the first place. Hearn had been on a bike ride in June and stopped by the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, where he was arrested after he allegedly touched material that the Trump administration had recently installed on the pool bottom. U.S.