Supreme Court allows White House ballroom construction to continue for now

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Of course it should be built, as opposed to forcing WH guest to wallow in the mud outside, as we have been doing...a win for Americans.




Supreme Court allows White House ballroom construction to continue for now​

The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon allowed construction on a new 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom to continue – at least for now. Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Leon had issued an order, slated to go into effect at the end of the day, that would have stopped above-ground work on the project. But Chief Justice John Roberts issued a temporary order, known as an administrative stay, that kept Leon’s order on hold to give the justices more time to consider the Trump administration’s request to pause it.

The brief, one-sentence stay did not indicate when the justices might act on the government’s request. Leon’s order has never gone into effect, permitting the Trump administration to move forward with construction while the case made its way toward the Supreme Court. U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the Supreme Court last week that there was “a 250-person crew working 20 hours a day, 7 days a week to keep the Project ahead of schedule and under budget”; as a result, he wrote, as of last week, the project was “65% complete in its entirety, and moving quickly toward total completion.”



 
I think we can predict from this that once again this SC will say the Constitution is irrelevant and can be put aside for 'reasons' because Trump demands it be.

I do not care about the ballroom or it being built but do care that Trump follow the Constitution and simply get authorization from his friendly Congress as the Constitution requires.

For Trump this and other actions have never been about the ballroom and have always been to say he as POTUS is not bounded by the Constitution and can act and will be given the power by Congress and the SC to do do in defiance of the Constitution.
 
Of course it should be built, as opposed to forcing WH guest to wallow in the mud outside, as we have been doing...a win for Americans.




Supreme Court allows White House ballroom construction to continue for now​

The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon allowed construction on a new 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom to continue – at least for now. Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Leon had issued an order, slated to go into effect at the end of the day, that would have stopped above-ground work on the project. But Chief Justice John Roberts issued a temporary order, known as an administrative stay, that kept Leon’s order on hold to give the justices more time to consider the Trump administration’s request to pause it.

The brief, one-sentence stay did not indicate when the justices might act on the government’s request. Leon’s order has never gone into effect, permitting the Trump administration to move forward with construction while the case made its way toward the Supreme Court. U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the Supreme Court last week that there was “a 250-person crew working 20 hours a day, 7 days a week to keep the Project ahead of schedule and under budget”; as a result, he wrote, as of last week, the project was “65% complete in its entirety, and moving quickly toward total completion.”



I love the fact that while Trump has caused anemic job growth, elevated inflation, and a stalemate in the Middle East, voters can see him obsessively seeking to build an ostentatious gold-gilded grand royal ballroom.

Talk about tone deaf.
 
I think we can predict from this that once again this SC will say the Constitution is irrelevant and can be put aside for 'reasons' because Trump demands it be.

I do not care about the ballroom or it being built but do care that Trump follow the Constitution and simply get authorization from his friendly Congress as the Constitution requires.

QPeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee,
Congress cannot even agree on Voter ID, which is wanted by 85% of Americans.
For Trump this and other actions have never been about the ballroom and have always been to say he as POTUS is not bounded by the Constitution and can act and will be given the power by Congress and the SC to do do in defiance of the Constitution.
Trump will be long out of office before this project is completed.
 
Of course it should be built,
That is for Congress to decide. Congress gets to decide what should or should not be built.

Is it legal for trump to replace Congress? Not one member of the Supreme Court was willing to say it was legal. They claimed that the plaintiff did not have standing. Even Justice Roberts observed that in previous decisions they had said similar plaintiffs did have standing, but apparently trump has a constitutional right to ignore the Constitution.
 
That is for Congress to decide. Congress gets to decide what should or should not be built.

Is it legal for trump to replace Congress? Not one member of the Supreme Court was willing to say it was legal. They claimed that the plaintiff did not have standing. Even Justice Roberts observed that in previous decisions they had said similar plaintiffs did have standing, but apparently trump has a constitutional right to ignore the Constitution.
No it isn't. WH renovations via exec. order have been done many times.
 
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