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The National Trust for Historic Preservation sued on behalf of an FDR-era East Wing that was itself built without congressional authorization. A hundred and fifty House Democrats filed a legal brief arguing congressional approval is required for presidential housekeeping decisions that previous presidents have been making without congressional approval since Theodore Roosevelt built the West Wing.
And through all of it, the concrete — described by the administration as indestructible, nuclear-hardened, and impossible to remove even if ordered — keeps going in. Krasner wants a paperweight. Blanche wants a finished building. The Supreme Court sided with Blanche.
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