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Appeals court halts construction of Trump’s $400m White House ballroom (www.theguardian.com)

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Ruling put on hold for two weeks, allowing administration to appeal to US supreme court

A US federal appeals court has ordered the Trump administration to halt construction of the US president’s $400m White House ballroom, in a fresh blow to the controversial project.

Donald Trump, who demolished the historic East Wing of the White House last year to make way for planned ballroom, has repeatedly touted it as “a gift” to the US people.

But in a major setback in a case testing ⁠his presidential authority, the Washington-based US ⁠court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit upheld a preliminary injunction in a divided 2-1 order on Friday.

The appeals court put ⁠its ruling on hold for two weeks, allowing the administration to appeal to the US supreme court.

Explaining their majority decision, Judges Patricia Millet and Bradley Garcia wrote: “Each President is a temporary tenant, not the owner, of the White House and its Executive Residence.”

The judges also said it was for US Congress to determine whether the ballroom could ultimately be built. “Whether or not a massive ballroom should be constructed is for Congress to decide and is not a matter for Executive self-help,” they wrote.

“This holding has nothing at all to do with whether the proposed ballroom is desirable, or not, as a matter of policy,” the judges added. “This ruling does not even necessarily mean that the Defendants may not ultimately construct the ballroom.

“What it does mean is that the Defendants may not do so during the district court’s expeditious litigation without securing Congress’s authorization, as the constitution and laws require.”

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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Uh... The wing is already gone, yes?

[–] lookitsjustin@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Watch the White House basically lie in ruin for the next (sane) president to have to clean up. America, y’all gotta figure your shit out down there.

[–] ButWhatDoesItAllMean@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Didn't it come out that underneath the new ballroom there was going to be a new massive security bunker? I thought I remember hearing that and it seemed that the ballroom was really just pretense for the security bunker to be built instead. I feel like that part of the discovery was just dropped and no one is talking about it anymore?

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Massive security bunker that the next President will never use because it's probably crawling with Russian listening devices

[–] froh42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Ich liebe es, when a dictator retreats to their bunker. Make sure they have a gun.

[–] Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That is part of it. There was already a bunker under the east wing but it was claimed that it needed updating. Probably wasn't tacky enough

[–] ButWhatDoesItAllMean@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Needs more gold leaf

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The bars on the cages the kids are locked in are gold plated. Sometimes a President wants to feel fancy while enjoying him some child rape.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Massive security bunker/data center/hospital/military conplex according to The Drey Dossier.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The average age in the Trump-Epstein Friendship Ballroom is going to be in the 20s. The median will be in the teens.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

watch this becomes the issue that gets the slimmest and dimmest majority in senate history to shred the filibuster for.