Chief Justice Roberts Just Let the White House Ballroom Keep Going And Dems Are Almost Out of Options

Trump called it “the greatest military complex slash ballroom anywhere in the world” during a tour this week. That framing matters because the underground components — the military facilities, the security bunker — were never blocked by the lower courts. The National Trust’s lawsuit is specifically aimed at the above-ground ballroom. Roberts’ order protects that too, for now.

This is the administration that moved the fastest and built the most before courts could stop it. It’s a valid strategy — not because the rule of law doesn’t matter, but because two partisan judges in the D.C. Circuit trying to veto presidential housekeeping decisions were never exercising legitimate judicial authority. The building continues. Roberts said so. Sixty-five percent done and counting.