National Trust President Brent Leggs said in a statement that the ruling marked "a great day for our country and for the American people's right to voice their opinions about the historic places they cherish, including the White House."

Trump appealed after U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, an appointee of Republican former President George W. Bush, twice blocked above-ground construction on the site while allowing underground work to continue.

The ballroom plan, which the administration has described as necessary for large formal functions and to preserve the safety of the White House, is the grandest of several Trump efforts to reshape central Washington's landscape of government buildings and national monuments.

A judge in a separate lawsuit recently said Trump’s name was illegally added to the exterior of the Kennedy Center performing arts venue and ordered its removal.

APPEAL TO NATIONAL SECURITY

In the ballroom case, Justice Department attorney Yaakov Roth said during D.C. Circuit arguments on June 5 that the courts have no role in weighing the privately funded project. He said the National Trust’s "architectural preference" should not take precedence over national security concerns, claiming evidence that the former East Wing left the president and others in the White House vulnerable to attack.

The judges in the appeals court’s majority — Circuit Judges Patricia Millett and Brad Garcia — said their order does not permanently bar construction of a ballroom, but halts above-ground work during the lawsuit and until the White House secures approval from Congress.

National security arguments “are not an automatic get-out-of-law-free card,” the opinion said.

“The bold assertion that the Executive can act with utter lawlessness, destroying treasured national landmarks and harming the interests of individuals, and that no court can stop it flouts our constitutional order,” the judges wrote.

Circuit Judge Neomi Rao, whom Trump appointed during his first term, said in her dissent that the trial judge’s injunction blocking the project “is beyond the proper province of the federal courts” and that construction should be allowed to continue.

“The district court seized supervision of construction at the White House, and my colleagues affirm this judicial overreach,” Rao wrote.

Trump has defended his ballroom's price tag, which has doubled from initial projections. Trump said in a post on Truth Social in May that the cost rose because "it is approximately twice the size, and a far higher quality, than the original proposal" and promised "it will be magnificent, safe, and secure!"

>>1528564
>District of Columbia Circuit
Not doing much for their credibility with this one.

>>1528571
You mean because it's not openly corrupt like the 5th court which is openly bought and sold by corpo billionaire interests?

>>1528608
Oops some mafia boss was cut out of the loop.
>The National Trust for Historic Preservation
Brought the suit.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/appeals-court-rules-trump-cant-build-white-house-ballroom-without-congressional-approval
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Trust_Community_Investment_Corporation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Trust_for_Historic_Preservation#Overview
Darn. Better preserve that...demolished building
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Leggs
In fact, The org is headed by this fuckwit who wants to tear down monuments, not preserve them.
A fitting, piggy for a liggeral org.

>>1528612
It's certainly better than trump building a new sex dungeon to rape children in the basement of the white house since the operation he runs out of Mar o Largo is not enough for him now.

>>1528612
You really should just fucking off yourself already and save us the trouble.

>>1528564
Subaru is flat.
FLAT

>>1528564
>ITT: Shills shocked and unable to comprehend you can't just tear down a federal building without congressional approval

>>1528564
We already have a thread about the Appeals Court being massive dicks now…

>>1528638
And he would have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for that pesky judicial system

>>1528564
civil war will now commence and it will not end until negotiations are successful.

>>1528728
they ran the connections they need through the foundation.
it probably won't be dug up again to pull out the bugs he was paid to plant

>>1528638
>>ITT: Shills shocked and unable to comprehend you can't just tear down a federal building without congressional approval
Its going to get appealed, its going to get over turned. Why? Separation of Powers.

>>1528730
Its going to get appealed and reversed and then you'll forget about it in like 15 minutes and move onto the next "win" against Orange man.

>>1528638
And after the midterms, the Democrat-run Senate & HoR can force Trump to rebuild that part of the White House prior to demolition. How? Just tell him that the price of another executive order is to restore that part of the White House as it was. No 'Ballroom' allowed.

>>1528742
WTF sense does this make you dumb asshole? It's simply petty bullshit.

>>1528613
Rape dungeons are for people who want access to undocumented boys to rape in a dungeon.
100% of chomos are also LGBTQ.
>>1528626
Quiet oinkers.

>>1528748
>Whatabout
Nah, it's Epstein, the founder of /pol/, and trump.

>>1528784
the shills doing their best
its not like they're getting sane orders or leeway

>>1528733
I repeat civil war has now commenced, you are now the enemy, pay for the ball room with your blood and your possessions will be confiscated by the state to aid in its renovations. Do so and you die a patriot, stand against us and die a domestic terrorist.

>>1528748
exactly! trump is a gay faggot and wants his ballroom for grooming kids. that's literally why he's building it. gotta read between the lines DUMBASS

>destroying part of the White House
Purely for the sake of vanity? WTF sense does that make, you dumb assholes? It's simply petty bullshit.
Democrats making a gay senile retard obsessed with ballrooms rebuild that part of the White House to as it was before can never be petty, though.
Rape dungeons are for subhuman projecting rightard pedos that want access to undocumented boys to rape in a dungeon.
>>1525962
As a commenter in that thread says:
>esl shill literally wakes up and defends pedophiles every single day
100% of chomos are miggers and their oinking projecting liggy miggy piggy protectors.

>>1528733
>Why? Separation of Powers.
$400 million doesn't just appear out of nowhere. Get the funds from Congress or fuck off from destroying federal property.

>>1528803
Fact check: True. Donald J Trump has described the now deceased homosexual jewish mob lawyer Roy Cohn as his ‘mentor’.