Supreme Court allows Trump to keep building ‘likely unlawful’ $400m White House ballroom

• A 5-4 Supreme Court majority ruled that construction on a $400 million White House ballroom can proceed.
• The decision reversed lower court orders that had temporarily halted aboveground work on the project.
• Chief Justice John Roberts joined three liberal justices and dissented from the decision.
• “Construction of the ballroom has proceeded apace for the better part of a year,” Roberts wrote. “That construction is likely unlawful.”
• The court majority dismissed the lawsuit against the Trump administration on procedural grounds, finding that the National Trust for Historic Preservation lacked legal standing.

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Trump’s ballroom construction ‘likely unlawful,’ John Roberts says, but Supreme Court will allow it anyway