National Mall sites shut down for protests during inauguration

Protests scheduled to take place around President-elect Trump’s inauguration next month won’t have access to the Lincoln Memorial and other sites on the National Mall.

The Guardian reported the National Park Service has filed documents securing large swaths of the Mall for inauguration events, essentially shutting them off to protesters. While this is standard procedure for inaugurations, and would have happened if Hillary Clinton was elected instead, it has angered some who planned to protest Trump.