National Trust for Historic Preservation Faces Legal Challenges Over White House Historic建
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The National Trust for Historic Preservation filed its request less than a week after the Trump administration asked the nation’s highest court to allow the White House to continue construction on its $400 million ballroom project.
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PBS NewsHourPreservation group urges Supreme Court to suspend White House ballroom project The National Trust for Historic Preservation filed its request on Tuesday, less than a week after the Trump administration asked the nation's highest court to allow the White House to continue construction on its $400 million ballroom project.
Washington ExaminerFriedrich’s ruling came as the administration separately seeks Supreme Court permission to continue work on Trump’s planned $400 million White House ballroom. The National Trust for Historic Preservation on Tuesday urged the justices to keep construction paused while they consider the administration’s request, according to a brief filed on the high court’s docket.
USA TodayThe National Trust for Historic Preservation told the high court that ballroom construction should stop unless Trump gets approval from Congress.
VoxLast fall, construction crews acting under Trump’s orders abruptly tore down the East Wing of the White House, the first step in Trump’s plan to replace the historic building with an enormous ballroom. A conservationist organization, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, soon sued to stop the construction on the ballroom in a case that is still ongoing. Lower courts have thus far agreed with this plaintiff that the ballroom is illegal.
The HillPreservationist group urges Supreme Court to keep White House ballroom paused The preservationist group trying to stop President Trump’s White House ballroom urged the Supreme Court to deny the administration’s emergency request to allow construction, calling it “astonishing” on Tuesday. The Trump administration wants the justices to step in to stop a lower court order that would grind the above-ground work to a halt starting Friday. “Petitioners,…
The FederalistThe Trump Justice Department asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to lift a lower court blockade on construction of the new White House ballroom.
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U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, an appointee of former President George W. Bush who issued the underlying order, wrote that “no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have.” The administration has countered that the president has broad authority to renovate the White House and that leaving the project as an open construction site poses security concerns. It also argues that the National Trust lacks standing to sue.
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Washington TimesThe administration argues that the president, not Congress or the courts, has unimpeded authority to renovate the White House. The current state of the project, essentially an open construction site, makes it harder to protect the White House, the Justice Department contends.
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Lower courts said construction on the above-ground portion of the project should be halted on Aug. 21 unless the administration gets approval from Congress.
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Washington TimesThe petition comes after a divided appeals court panel upheld an order to pause aboveground construction on the project. The ruling was suspended to let the administration appeal.
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In its application to SCOTUS, the Justice Department characterized Leon’s injunction as “extraordinary and unlawful,” and argued that the project (“integrated military complex”) “is vitally required by national security.” The agency further contended that, if permitted to take effect, the Bush appointee’s injunction “would wrongfully install a single district judge as sole arbiter of what further construction is ‘strictly necessary’ to protect the safety of the President, his family, staff members, and visitors to the White House, including foreign dignitaries, and presidents and prime ministers of other countries.”
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01 Washington Examiner A federal judge on Tuesday cleared the Trump administration to begin limited paint testing on the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the ornate former State, War, and Navy Building constructed in the late 1800s beside the White House.
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02 USA Today The group urged the court not to let construction continue until the legal battle has been resolved.
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03 Washington Times The administration also says the National Trust for Historic Preservation does not have the legal right, or standing, to sue over the ballroom.
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04 The Federalist In its emergency application for stay, the Trump administration requested the high court to temporarily pause a preliminary injunction by D.C. District Senior Judge Richard Leon. Issued by the Bush 43 appointee earlier this year, the order barred the White House from undertaking above-ground construction on the privately-funded project because he said it lacked congressional approval.
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05 RealClearPolitics Chief Justice John Roberts faces a critical stay decision on the D.C. Circuit's order blocking Trump's White House East Wing construction project. Read Full Article ⟶
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06 Vox The question of whether President Donald Trump may, without seeking permission from Congress, demolish much of the White House and replace it with his own projects is now before the Supreme Court.
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