On October 8, 2026, CHP Partner Charles Curlett delivered his presentation Bulldozing, Building, and “Beautification” in Trump’s Washington: The Administration’s effort to undermine Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, at a meeting of the Serjeants’ Inn, a Baltimore law club. Charles discussed the strategies employed by the Trump Administration to ignore and rewrite the law of historic preservation to advance its development agenda both in the Capital and nationwide, and the legal challenges playing out in federal court to stop them.
Charles Curlett; Oana Brooks, Master Sergeant of the Serjeants’ Inn.