"... and not on the 90,000-square-foot aboveground addition that Trump has eyed to entertain VIP guests. 'National security is not a blank check to proceed with otherwise unlawful activity,' U.S. District Judge Richard Leon wrote Thursday. He said the Trump administration could also take steps to secure the construction site to make it safe for people on the White House grounds...."
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112 comments:
When was Richard Leon elected President?
Is there any basis in law for this ruling or is this more Hawaiian judge punch?
JHC. What court/judge is next in line to overturn this a**hole?
Democrats are fighting and suing to make sure Americans get nothing, even an expensive privately funded ballroom for free.
The three largest Democrat run states (NY, CA, IL) are all refusing to give their citizens the no tax on tips tax break that was passed federally. They intend to claw it back to their greedy mitts so it can disappear like the rest of the revenue. Wouldn't want those hard-working waitresses spending it on their kids' shoes or something stupid like that. Then the Dems in these states will reelect them anyway. It's like slaves choosing to make their own shackles.
Make it "safe" for people? That gives away his twisted logic. The White House has incredibly intense security. They have cameras everywhere and routinely have visible snipers on the roof. They shut down pedestrian access to the former Pennsylvania Ave on the north side whenever there's a big event.
For the expected level of security and features, the underground portion may take a long time to build. Especially if they expand tunnel access to the Metro and other buildings for multiple hardened escape routes.
How petty this fight is..and how disingenuous the WaPo ‘Trump has eyed to entertain VIP guests. It’s called a state dinner and is a regular part of every President’s time in office. Instead of having them in a tent like it’s a wedding in the back yard the President secured private funding to build an appropriate venue…and these twits just can’t resist the urge to shit all over it…
If Judges want to get involved, we need to make Judicial Consent like Campus Sexual Consent.
Excavator Operator: Can I scoop up this pile of dirt?
Judge: I consent to you scooping up this pile of dirt.
Excavator Operator: Please initial here.
Carpenter: Can I nail this board to that board?
Judge: I consent to you nailing that board to this board.
Carpenter: Please initial here.
Who made this Judge president?
Bagoh said...
"Democrats are fighting and suing to make sure Americans get nothing, even an expensive privately funded ballroom for free."
Indeed.
The dems are the party of non-stop punitive measures.
Find another District Judge to rule that construction must start immediately, then tell the first judge to pound sand.
we live under unchecked judicial power. Richard Leon has donned a black robe and can now tell the POTUS how and what extent he can remodel the White House and Executive grounds. No doubt he'll be telling Melanie where she can plant roses next.
…they’re not gonna like stare decisis payback should it ever come to it…
What's the legal basis for stopping it? So strange.
You may be a construction worker, working on a home
You might be living in a mansion, you might live in a dome
You may own guns and you may even own tanks
You may be somebody's landlord, you may even own banks
But you're gonna have to serve somebody
From what I can see, over the 10+ years, Federal judges have been used to:
A) Stop any Trump program the leftists decide must be stopped.
B) Release as many repeat criminals back out onto the streets of our cities as possible to create mayhem.
It would sure seem time to dust off any policy procedures on impeaching and removing a Federal judge. If they think they are untouchable, they will act as though they are untouchable.
Didn't an appellate court just greenlight this project last week?
It would not surprise me to see the judges start to step in on the State Dinner menu choices.
It seems to me that many federal judges have come to believe they are the secular or judicial equivalent of the pope. Where he claims to be infallable in matters of faith and morals, they claim infallability in, well, all matters. And speaking of the pope, he has taken it into his head that after twelve hundred years of islamic warfare against and persecution of Christians, we need to stop worrying about islam. Tell that to the Nigerians, the Syrians, the Copts, I could go on. If I was a suspicious person, I might think the pope had ulterior motives.
Precedents have already been set. No judge interfered with FDR's indoor swimming pool. Not one dared. Nor did any judge prevent Nixon from filling in that pool and transforming the space into the sacred press room. Not one dared even though there were literally hundreds of Democrat-appointed federal judges who were eager to do the bidding of their masters, because of the precedent set by FDR.
IamDevo writes, "It seems to me that many federal judges have come to believe they are the secular or judicial equivalent of the pope."
Not infallible, omnipotent -- a different sort sovereign prerogative altogether.
Judge Leon says “National security is not a blank check to proceed with otherwise unlawful activity.” Does the judge’s opinion state which specific laws the ballroom’s construction violate?
It would be nice if District judges could get past “Trump is doing it, therefore I don’t like it, and consequently it is somehow or another illegal.
The judge is now the construction site project manager, he has decided that it is perfectly safe for personnel to operate under his dictate. But if someone is hurt or killed he will have no liability at all. We live in a governmental clown world
Next week he will be complaining about how sad it is that people no longer respect the federal judiciary like they used to.
As Andrew Jackson might have said, "Judge Leon has made his decision. Now let him enforce it."
"He said the Trump administration could also take steps to secure the construction site to make it safe for people on the White House grounds..."
Get him a hardhat, and he can show 'em where to dig. What an insufferable little prick.
This just Trump Hate. Nothing else. I won’t even call it TDS.
By the way. Didn’t another judge approve this a week or two ago.
JDS
They beclown themselves.
Who is financing this litigation?
Why does plaintiff have standing to sue?
Article III jurisdiction is supposed to require more than a generalized dissatisfaction. Where is the "concrete and particularized" injury?
Trump claimed that the Ballroom was going to be built from private donations for $400 million but expansion of the underground bomb shelter was never mentioned, So with the tear down of the East Wing, the actual cost will be far greater than the unbudgeted $400 million requiring taxpayer funding, so up jumped the need for deep underground military funding at taxpayer expense.
Trump doesn't tell lies well.
The problem is that decision making in the mass political environment is incentivized for short term success and medium to long term failure.
Micromanaging a construction project - that sounds like something a Federal judge should be doing, right?
He's on senior status. Does that mean he picked this case to take?
"He said the Trump administration could also take steps to secure the construction site to make it safe for people on the White House grounds..."
Trump should "secure the construction site" by enclosing it in a set of walls and roofing, maybe something ballroom-looking.
Who or what will rid us of these rogue judges?!
Judge Leon and his buddies on the court should put on some old clothes, get out their tool boxes and meet over the weekend at the White House - after a stop at Home Depot - and build the ballroom themselves.
Pumpkinheaded maroon.
…the lack of outrage from those with a stake in upholding the integrity of the legal profession is most disturbing. It all makes me believe one of my great mistakes in life is I didn’t hate the lawyers enough…
Democrats on the judiciary are quickly becoming illegal tyrants. They are creating a schism that is even worse than the political parties because they get nominated for life and are completely unaccountable.
He lost the plot long ago like reggie walton of plame infamy
@Dude1394 --
The Democrats turned judges into political operatives during 1930s when FDR threatened to pack the court if they didn't support his policies.
They are squawking now because the Republicans became activists after Roe-v-Wade and the "discovery" that the death penalty was unconstitutional in the early 1970s. Trump's court appointments resulted in rolling back decades of left-wing policies.
“ When was Richard Leon elected President?”
Well, I guess he’s president of the local HOA as well as a federal judge. Nothing wrong with that.
Well, I guess Trump just needs to make an even larger hole in the ground, since that's OK. Maybe just demolish the LOB across the street.
This keeps people focused on the Disco ball. It's distractions all the way down
Gadfly you douche. You generally don’t broadcast how a national security site is being built and what is all going to be included. This jerkoff judge probably wants all that info so he can share it with his liberal buddies at a cocktail party. And idiots like you think that’s ok.
Sometimes it’s really hard to keep my comments about pricks like you to myself. Today I could not help myself.
What's the legal basis for stopping it? So strange.
That's my question too. What "unlawful activity," exactly?
Apparently he's not just a Federal Judge, but a Construction Foreman as well.
The judge is worried about safety? How many people have been assaulted, rape and murdered by illegals since Biden opened the border? He had years to stand up for those people.
The court didn’t rule the ballroom could not be built. He ruled, based on his interpretation of an unambiguous law that Congress had to approve. Read the earlier decision. David - you are a lawyer. Did you read the decision before reaching your conclusion? That is what lawyers are supposed to do but you know that.
"Trump doesn't tell lies well"
You do!
Many judges have become partisan hacks. They are damaging the legal profession. But they are probably paid off plus they are leftys, so what do they care.
The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office
Do you see impeach in there? I don't. Until recently, we've not had any real examples of FEDERAL court judges engaging in bad behavior.
But let's take some hypotheticals and ask- should impeachment by necessary to remove the judge?
A judge gets convicted of DUI. He should, IMHO, removed immediately on conviction. No impeachment necessary- that's not good Behaviour,. Pretty much applies to any conviction.
Judge Steven Douglas Merryday was convicted of DUI in 1994. The president suffered a minor setback this morning in his defamation suit against the New York Times. Judge Steven Merryday struck the entire complaint for standing “unmistakably and inexcusably athwart the requirements of Rule 8.” So we had a convicted drubk rule against Trump- and we're all supposed to sit back and RESPECT his opinion...
Judges, much more so then elected officials, are supposed to be above reproach. Hence the "good Behaviour" clause. They are the least accountable class of federal officials. By far. Because no rules have ever been enacted to decide what procedures should be used to judge the judges.
And not engaging in "good behaviour" doesn't mean just convicted of a crime. Adultery, for example, isn't prosecuted anywhere in the USA- unless you're in the military under the UCMJ. Do you trust a adulterous judge (and there are MANY of those) who violated his marital oaths holding judgment upon you? I certainly don't.
And let's use a really modern day problem- judges releasing multiply convicted criminals back into the street to prey upon innocent citizen- and in some case- non-citizens. Even murdering them- after being released from previous MURDERS. Are they engaging in good Behaviour. To the average observer- they quite obviously are not.
Congress needs to get off it's collective duff and develop rules for removing judges. Starting with- who can file a complaint? And who shall be the judges? With the ability to determine just one thing- is the judge engaging in good Behaviour? Yes or No? And only one penalty- removal from office. Nothing more- and NOTHING less. Could even establish multiple paths. But all the paths should be swift- no hanging around for months waiting for a tribunal.
It would not surprise me if Trump begins ignoring these district judges after the midterms. The Dems are going to impeach him over and over anyway if they take the House, so he might as well get popular things done.
The Judge was overruled 2-1 five days ago. From the dissenting opinion:
RAO, Circuit Judge, dissenting: The President has commenced construction of a new ballroom and security facilities in the East Wing of the White House. The district court halted construction based on the alleged aesthetic injury of one individual residing in Washington, D.C. I would stay the preliminary injunction pending appeal. The government has demonstrated a strong likelihood of success on the merits because the National Trust for Historic Preservation (the“Trust”) lacks standing to sue and because the construction project is authorized by a statute that allows the President to undertake “improvement[s]” to the White House. 3 U.S.C.§ 105(d)(1). Importantly, the government has presented credible evidence of ongoing security vulnerabilities at the White House that would be prolonged by halting construction. This constitutes irreparable injury and is clearly a weightier interest than the generalized aesthetic harms identified by a single member of the Trust. Because my colleagues’ remand for further factfinding constructively denies the government the stay to which it is entitled, I respectfully dissent.
Which Democrat president appointed that clown?
There is no difference between this writ just issued, and the toilet paper the Judge issued this morning.
Eff 'em. Dare them to enforce it.
Enough of this shit.
So with the tear down of the East Wing, the actual cost will be far greater than the unbudgeted $400 million requiring taxpayer funding,
And you know this, how? You don't. So, STFU.
F*ck the federal judge... he can go to hell.
Many people say Powell is going to be tracking any overruns. The irony
Construction projects don't stop and start well. Underground construction by itself does not work well if it was not designed that way.
I once analyzed a city's public library which was built in two sections. The first was the basement and its construction had a proper roof for a below-grade building. The addition was vertical, the first floor which matched the footprint of the basement.
I analyzed the cooling system and found it was oversized, duh. The basement unit was kept for the basement, which had no roof heat load anymore, and the site is Texas so it was most of the heat load. The first floor had its own cooling system, sized for the first floor walls and its new roof.
I assume the HVAC designer pointed out how ridiculous this was but was overruled.
To Gadfly at 1:07. It is my belief that this is a bunker project and it started well before the second Trump administration. A WWII bunker is probably as useful in a war as a WWII state-of-the-art fighter plane.
There is no way this complex building was designed between Jan 20, 2025 and the groundbreaking in the summer.
That ballroom in the heart of the government district will be used by every executive agency and will be requested by every legislative body, too. Cabinet members will fight over who gets to use it. Its calendar will be full.
The ballroom is about 20,000 sq ft. Any convention hotel has a room that big. It hold 1000 people and I think that must be when sitting in rows of chairs. Many events have attendance bigger than that.
He ruled, based on his interpretation of an unambiguous law that Congress had to approve.
Sure. An "unambiguous" law that is subject to "interpretation."
How did you do in law school?
The White House has a known underground connection and tunnel network. If one rides the Red Line Metro train, there's a phantom door/exit between the Farragut North and Metro Center stations. It's seen by thousands of Metro riders every day.
The Red Line route is laid out on Google Maps -- just north of the White House in the middle of Lafayette Square. It gets closer and closer to the East Wing as the route moves from NW to SE.
There is a 100% chance that the current East Wing underground construction is taking maximum consideration of the security desires and needs. I'd bet this plan was developed several decades ago. The Red Line opened in 1976.
When was Richard Leon elected President?
When was Donald Trump elected Congress? He doesn't get to rewrite law on his own. He wants a ballroom, he goes to Congress for legislation and appropriation.
He might do that if the taxpayers were paying the bill, Schvantz.
Eff 'em. Dare them to enforce it.
Enough of this shit.
The Ukraine and Jan 6 impeachment attempts were nonsense. Pure politics.
If Trump goes ahead with ballroom construction without approval from Congress, that's a true impeachable offense, and he should be removed from office.
Lance… damned auto correct…
@gospace wrote: "Do you see impeach in there? I don't."
It's in Article II, Section 4. "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
A judge is a civil Officer. Fifteen federal judges have been impeached, not all removed from office. Several resigned in advance of the trial. The last impeachment was in 2010, the judge was removed from office.
I don't know how Judge Leon has deluded himself into believing he's the Nation's executive. But I spent more than twentyyears of my legal career writing capital construction contracts and dealing with litigation that occasionally occurred. I can tell you that, as a Project Manager, Judge Leon stinks.
Thats very silly lance
If Trump goes ahead with ballroom construction without approval from Congress, that's a true impeachable offense, and he should be removed from office.
You don't have the slightest idea of what you're talking about.
If White House renovations required Congressional approval, every President who did said renovations would've needed it.
They don't. And they didn't.
Hasn't it already been established that if private money rather than federal funds are used consulting Congress is a courtesy, rather than a requirement?
Leon is a Bushite, rather than a liberal/progressive, but maybe there's not much difference between the two now.
This was interesting:
Leon issued a controversial stay of the Purple Line, a long-delayed light rail transit project in the D.C. suburbs, insisting that the project needed another Environmental Impact Statement. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan noted Leon's close relationship with the Columbia Country Club, a prominent opponent of the project. Leon's ruling was later overruled.
Ten years later, it doesn't look like the Purple Line is up and running, so maybe there will still just be a big pit next to the White House in 2036.
He doesn't get to rewrite law on his own. He wants a ballroom, he goes to Congress for legislation and appropriation.
If Trump goes ahead with ballroom construction without approval from Congress, that's a true impeachable offense, and he should be removed from office.
Trump does not need Congressional appropriations for a privately funded project. What legislation do you (mistakenly) believe he needs? Keep in mind that under Article II of the Constitution he is the sole leader of the Executive Branch of the federal governments, and recall that the Legislative Branch has no role in executing Executive Branch functions.
Trump does not need Congressional appropriations for a privately funded project.
First, has the administration demonstrated that this is a 100% privately funded project? Who's paying the contractors? What about the D.C. officials involved, is the administration planning to reimburse their time and expense? You can't just claim "privately funded" when you're spending $400 million on a major architectural project.
Second, the President doesn't own the White House, he's just the steward. The United States owns the White House and the grounds around it, and Article IV, Section 3 grants Congress--not the Executive--the power to "dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States."
If he wants the ballroom, Trump needs to get Congressional authorization to build it. He should have already gotten authorization before starting demo. If he wants to pay for it privately, he needs to account for every penny, and ensure that the U.S. government is reimbursed for any expenditures.
It was wrong when Obama and Biden dictated law, and it's wrong when Trump does it.
"Otherwise unlawful activity"...hmmm.
"What legislation do you (mistakenly) believe he needs?"
Well, it's Trump. So, of course, every decision he makes must be opposed. By any means necessary.
Let's all just keep dancing like ballet dancers.
The impeachment of judges will not happen. Too much money and power and corruption to change the course of this river.
Ten years from now, if not sooner, we will look back at this time and sadly realize that we did not do what needed to be done, and it was now too late.
I whisper softly: Luigi.
"A federal judge set new limits on President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom, saying construction could proceed only on an underground portion of the project deemed necessary by the military..."
"... and not on the 90,000-square-foot aboveground addition that Trump has eyed to entertain VIP guests. 'National security is not a blank check to proceed with otherwise unlawful activity,' U.S. District Judge Richard Leon wrote Thursday. He said the Trump administration could also take steps to secure the construction site to make it safe for people on the White House grounds...."
The correct question: How many of these "judges" do we need to publicly hang?
“The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.”
Let that sink in. The executive power may be vested in the President alone, but the judicial power is vested more broadly in the judges at all levels of the court system..
Harvard had a construction project to expand its Allston campus that had to be halted for four years as a result of the Great Recession of 2007-2009. The basement was finished and capped over, later the rest of the complex was built.
No reason why the same thing couldn’t be done with the East Wing ballroom project until it obtains Congressional approval.
In the meantime, plant grass or put down pavers atop the finished basement.
Judge Richard Leon was appointed in 2002 by President George W. Bush.
Left Bank of the Charles said...
Judge Richard Leon was appointed in 2002 by President George W. Bush.
So now Democrats are defending Chimpy McHitler?
You are a fucking disgrace. You don't have a single principle in your soul.
Lance said...
Eff 'em. Dare them to enforce it.
Enough of this shit.
The Ukraine and Jan 6 impeachment attempts were nonsense. Pure politics.
If Trump goes ahead with ballroom construction without approval from Congress, that's a true impeachable offense, and he should be removed from office.
LOL!
He should arrest congress and the rogue "judges" and see who the public sides with.
If he wants the ballroom, Trump needs to get Congressional authorization to build it. He should have already gotten authorization before starting demo. If he wants to pay for it privately, he needs to account for every penny, and ensure that the U.S. government is reimbursed for any expenditures.
It's completely hopeless to even try to talk sense into you because - again - you don't have the slightest idea of what you're talking about.
He doesn't need to do jack.
Congrats on joining the illustrious list of Scroll Trolls.
"If he wants to pay for it privately, he needs to account for every penny, and ensure that the U.S. government is reimbursed for any expenditures."
Because the government needs every penny in order to continue funding learing centers and hospices?
And by "government needs" (above), I mean what idiot leftists want the government to spend tax dollars on.
Gadfly gave away the latest talking point - and Lance is alluding to it.
Apparently, they just discovered it's not just the ballroom but the underground stuff. You know, what the rest of us knew when it started.
Ergo, there is no way it can come in under budget because nobody thought about it before Trump personally started tearing things down. Hence, he'll need more money, will need to go to Congress to get it and THEN he'll need their approval.
Or something like that. I don't know and I can't be bothered to care.
Why, it's almost as if Trump has no experience getting things built.
Start with the basic problem. You have a privately funded, but federally chartered, historical trust, with little, if any, actual power suing te National Park Service. As far as I can tell, management of the trust is either self appointed, or through members organizations. Importantly, the President has no power to fire the top people. The theory seems to be that the Trust has some power to control historical buildings in DC. Maybe through some federal law, but the one pointed to merely creates the trust.
So, how do they get Standing to sue the USG? Are there any particularized damages? Nope. There aren’t any. Despite their concerns about their own conception of what the WH is supposed to look like, their interests are really no more important than those of 330,000,000 other Americans. No particularized damages=>no Standing=>no jurisdiction by federal courts.
In fairness, a lot of the recent growth in this area of the law comes from election law, and in particular, how so many 2020 election fraud cases were dismissed. They were likely well after Nixon appointee Judge Leon went into his doddering stage of life.
Then there is the Separation of Powers issue. Someone above suggested that there was a statute that gave this Trust the power to approve (or deny) the building of the ballroom. But that was ever in Congress’s power. It’s the home of the Executive. The 2nd Branch of the US government. Similarly, the Executive branch doesn’t interfere with the Capital, center of the 1st Branch of government, Congress. So, no, Congress probably doesn’t have the power to regulate changes to the White House.
I look forward to the federal judiciary hurling themselves in front of every single thing a Democratic president wants to do, no matter how minor.
Unambiguous Law has to be the funniest thing a leftist ever wrote here. We can’t even get proggish judges to admit that the plain language of the 2nd Amendment means what it unambiguously says.
I really doubt there's going to be an escape hatch from the WH to the Red Line. First, an escape hatch is also an entrance. Does it make sense to create a full time vulnerability just to have one more evacuation option that has a tiny probability of ever being used? Second, the most recent major threat to the WH was the 2020 riots. Evacuating to the Metro would have put the president in the midst of the rioters. Finally, the Metro, even if it were deserted, isn't that secure. Parts of it aren't very deep, the very nature of a subway means outside air is constantly coming in so there's no real CBR protection, and it's a known path, so if the president had a train or the secret service put him on a cartoon 2-man pump cart, all possible enemies would know exactly where he was going.
If you really want an evac tunnel, I would go for an underground tunnel to the Potomac, whence you could take an armored speedboat to an infinite number of possible landings. The tunnel would need to be close to a mile long, but hey, the sooner you start, the sooner you finish.
Or maybe there already is one. Gotta keep everyone guessing. CC, JSM
Bruce Hayden has identified the standing problem. In addition, there is mootness: the White House wing the suit purports to seek to protect has been demolished and no longer exists.
@john mosby ---
The Red Line pathway is known, and its vulnerabilities are obvious. But, it is an option when the streets are clogged and when there are crowds/fires above ground. Other bits and pieces of DC's security infrastructure are publicly known too. See the underground 'safe spaces' of Mount Weather and the Greenbrier Hotel. These systems get exposed over time, their tech goes obsolete, and they upgraded.
Mount Weather hit the news when a random plane crashed near the facility (1974). The spies went bonkers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_514
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Weather_Emergency_Operations_Center
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greenbrier
Given modern bunker buster weapons, the new East Room underground is likely MUCH deeper than the Metro.
If Federal judges are trying to set themselves up to be the final arbiters, then it is time to put a stop to it. Permanently.
Who is this Lance troll? He sounds as if he just got off the short bus.
So the complainant is one lady whose view might be altered when she takes a walk. Seriously? That is thei ridiculousness of this.
A retired judge gets his 15 minutes of fame before he’s reversed. We can’t keep doing this sh*t
Iman said...
"Lance… damned auto correct…"
I thought you were being poetic. I laughed.
White House bunker to include “Jesus-grade resurrection cave” donated by Peter Thiel, says Trump.
Justice Roberts could stop this crap if he wanted to. He doesn't.
They need the secret tunnel so that presidents can go out and explain their policies to a multicultural mix of subway riders, like Churchill in that phony baloney movie that Gary Oldman got an Oscar for.
Only thing that stops Trump from doing that is his germophobia. I don't think he could recover from grabbing a subway stanchion. Otherwise, couldn't you just see him holding court for all comers on a rattling, swaying car? So many politicians try it - none ever get it right. He would. CC, JSM
Edmund said...
@gospace wrote: "Do you see impeach in there? I don't."
It's in Article II, Section 4. "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
So is lack of good Behaviour" Treason, Bribery, or another high Crime and Misdemeanor? It is specifically designated as "good Behaviour" and not defined as any of those. It stands separate from them and needs a separate forum.
'National security is not a blank check to proceed with otherwise unlawful activity,' U.S. District Judge Richard Leon wrote Thursday.
Too bad "judge" Leon isn't willing to accept that his TDS is not a blank check to proceed with otherwise unlawful judicial action.
No one in front of him has standing for this suit, which means "judge" Leon has no jurisdiction, and his ruling are all illegal and ultra vires
A few basketball courts this summer and a temporary ice skating rink over the completed basement would be a fun DC fixture until this judge gets overruled. Trump could invite Obama to celebrate some midnight basketball tournaments with the local DC kids. And perhaps get Alysa Liu to host a skating seminar. For the children! Just a suggestion.
A true question of legalities here: Could Trump continue construction to completion while filing a proper request for Congressional approval, and another after that if the first is not granted, and another, and another, until completion, or until approval is granted?
DC CA has already stayed his insane order
Briefing by the parties is due in May, trial starts in June, at the appeals court level
DC CA panel has administratively stayed the lower court judge.
Trump is going to keep on building
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