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The Trump administration can continue building a $400m White House ballroom at the site of the former East Wing, a US appeals court ruled on Friday.

The three-judge panel of the US court of appeals for Washington DC granted the administration a stay of an order days earlier that had aimed to halt most aboveground construction. That earlier order had resulted from a lawsuit filed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which challenged whether Donald Trump had the authority to raze the East Wing and construct the ballroom without congressional approval.

The US district judge Richard Leon had initially halted construction of the ballroom in March – because of that lack of congressional approval – before an appeals court ordered him to reconsider the national security implications of the pause.

The Trump administration had argued that suspending construction of the new facility is “threatening grave national-security harms to the White House, the president and his family, and the president’s staff”.

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

The US district judge Richard Leon had initially halted construction of the ballroom in March – because of that lack of congressional approval – before an appeals court ordered him to reconsider the national security implications of the pause.

The Trump administration had argued that suspending construction of the new facility is “threatening grave national-security harms to the White House, the president and his family, and the president’s staff”.

Cool story. I guess you should put it back the way it was since it's not your fucking property and you never got authorization to change anything.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i hope some future president campaigns on the promise to rip out every molecule of gold, every fixture installed by that orange piece of shit and put the whitehouse back they way it was.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

It’ll never be the way it was but can be improved on always. I’d like a garden back in the garden though. Less gaudy appearances, something mildly relatable to the people but still a classy kind of flashy.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

Melt all that gold down as a start.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Our judiciary doesn’t seem to understand how much of a tragicomedic fucking joke they’re making their branch of government out to be

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

We really need a thorough list of those who should be protected later.