US EditionJudge says Trump White House ballroom construction can proceed for now
A federal judge ruled preservationists unlikely to halt the $400 million White House ballroom project funded by private donors, allowing construction to continue pending amended lawsuit.
- This week, Judge Richard J. Leon allowed construction to proceed, rejecting the National Trust for Historic Preservation's bid to stop the 90,000-square-foot ballroom, saying preservationists failed to meet the high bar to stop work for now.
- Amid preservationist objections, questions arose about congressional authority after the White House announced the ballroom in July and cleared the East Wing by October.
- The White House argued the project is privately funded, with the Trust for the National Mall managing $400 million and donors including Palantir, Lockheed Martin, and Meta.
- The National Commission on Capital Planning will hold a public hearing and the 12-member commission will vote on March 5, after new Feb. 13 renderings by architect Shalom Baranes showed an East Wing longer than the West Wing blocking Treasury Building views from the South Lawn.
- Critics noted the project’s scale at 90,000 square feet, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, saying `Trump's gold-encrusted ballroom has become a vehicle for corruption` and Carol Quillen, CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, warning it will overwhelm the 55,000-square-foot White House.
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Judge: Legal challenge to Trump's White House ballroom plan procedurally deficient * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
A rendering of the planned White House ballroom. A federal judge has had to rule that, for now, President Donald Trump’s plans for a $400 million White House ballroom to replace the demolished East Wing must be allowed to move forward. In the decision by Judge Richard Leon, who previously has ruled against the president’s plans several times, he conceded that the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the project failed to bring the legally required ar…
Judge clears White House ballroom construction
A federal judge cleared President Donald Trump’s ballroom construction for the time being. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled against the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s lawsuit to halt its construction on procedural grounds, not its merits. He argued that the plaintiffs had wrongly invoked the Administrative Procedure Act, as the law only applies to agencies, with the White House not being an agency. …
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