The battle over the slavery exhibit at the President’s House site in Philadelphia took another turn on Thursday as a federal appeals court sided with the Trump administration’s decision to remove it. The latest court order reversed a February injunction by a Philadelphia district court judge that required the National Park Service to restore the display.The President’s House display in Philadelphia was the residence where George Washington lived as president, when Philadelphia was the capital of the early United States. The slavery exhibit known as “President’s House: Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation” commemorates the lives of the slaves of Washington who lived there at the time. It was constructed in 2010. As part of President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14253, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” the display’s panels were removed on Jan. 22, 2026, because it was considered material that “inappropriately disparaged Americans past or living.” The city of Philadelphia filed a lawsuit to prevent the removal of the display and, in February, U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe ordered the National Park Service to “restore the President’s House Site to its physical status as of January 21, 2026.”