SCOTUS Rules Trump Can Build White House Ballroom, Roberts Joins Dissenting Liberals

SCOTUS Rules Trump Can Build White House Ballroom, Roberts Joins Dissenting Liberals The U.S. Supreme Court just issued an order allowing construction of President Trump’s White House ballroom project to continue while the administration contests a lower court order that would block much of the development. The justices voted 5–4 (with Chief Justice Roberts joining the three 'liberal' judges in dissent) to grant the federal government’s request to stay a lower court’s order halting above-ground construction of the ballroom while a lawsuit against the project by a historic preservation group plays out. “We do not pass upon the legality” of the project, the court said in an unsigned eight-page decision from five...

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