A group of veterans on Thursday sued to halt President Donald Trump’s plan to build a new monument in Washington, D.C., alleging the proposal first requires congressional approval. 

Three Vietnam War veterans and a historian filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. They are seeking to block Trump from building the towering “Independence Arch” between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, challenging his plan to build a monument without direct legislative approval, and alleging it erodes the historical integrity of the city’s existing monument landscape. 

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