{"id":2645032,"date":"2026-08-14T10:03:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-asks-high-court-to-allow-white-house-ballroom-construction-to-continue\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:04:46","slug":"trump-asks-high-court-to-allow-white-house-ballroom-construction-to-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-asks-high-court-to-allow-white-house-ballroom-construction-to-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump asks high court to allow White House ballroom construction to continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-asks-high-court-to-allow-white-house-ballroom-construction-to-continue%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2645032&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Trump management requested the Supreme court to permit construction of the White House ballroom to continue after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-tells-businesses-to-move-forward-with-bidens-vaccine-testing-rule-despite-federal-courts-temporary-block\/\" title=\"... Tells Businesses To \u2018Move Forward\u2019 With Biden\u2019s Vaccine, Testing Rule Despite Federal ...\u2019s Temporary Block\">federal appeals court ordered<\/a> a halt until Congressional approval is obtained. The project involves rebuilding the East Wing, which was demolished last year for a new structure including a ballroom and enhanced security features. The National Trust for Historic Preservation had previously sued to stop the construction, leading to court rulings against the project. Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued that the construction is vital for national security, framing the project as an \u201cintegrated military complex,\u201d and criticized the lower court\u2019s injunction as overreach that could threaten presidential security. The appeal came after a court panel ruled that Congress\u2019s approval was necessary for the project to proceed. The controversy has drawn political and legal debates over presidential authority, security, and preservation aesthetics.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-administration\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"339\">Trump administration<\/a> asked the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"203\">Supreme Court<\/a> on Friday to allow construction on the White House ballroom to continue, after a federal appeals court <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4679112\/dc-circuit-congress-approval-white-hosue-ballroom\/\">said<\/a> the construction must be halted until the federal government gets approval from Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The East Wing of the White House was demolished last year to make way for a new structure that would include a ballroom and security improvements to the White House complex. The National Trust for Historic Preservation sued the Trump administration last year to stop construction, and both a federal district court and federal appeals court sided with the group.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4680843\/trump-ask-supreme-court-ballroom-construction-continue\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump asks Supreme Court to allow White House ballroom construction to continue<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/4686089\/female-only-spa-washington-supreme-court\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Female-only spa asks Supreme Court to let them ban \u2018swinging d***s\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/4679773\/alito-another-term-dismisses-retirement\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Alito says \u2018I\u2019m here for another term,\u2019 dismissing retirement speculations<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the Supreme Court to allow construction to continue, framing the project as an \u201cintegrated military complex\u201d that is \u201cvitally required by national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf allowed to go into effect, the injunction would wrongfully install a single district judge as sole arbiter of what further construction is \u2018strictly necessary\u2019 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,\u201d Sauer said, citing the various assassination attempts against President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While construction on the new East Wing has not been halted since it began last year, under the Aug. 7 ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, construction would have to stop on Aug. 21, barring action by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSuch an injunction \u2018threatens the security and safety of the President of the United States,\u2019 rests on glaring errors as to Article III standing, the merits, and the equities, and creates a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >needless inter-branch collision<\/a>,\u201d Sauer wrote. \u201cIn upholding it, a D.C. Circuit majority wrongly viewed the President as a mere \u2018tenant\u2019 of the White House with the district judge as his de facto landlord.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe President of the United States of America is not a tenant, but rather the sole, elected head of the Executive Branch, and Congress has authorized him to renovate, secure, and protect the White House and its grounds, as other Presidents have been allowed to do, without exception. The injunction is \u2018judicial overreach \u2026 beyond the proper province of the federal courts,&#8217;\u201d Sauer added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The emergency petition to the Supreme Court comes a week after a panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1 to halt construction of the renovated East Wing. The panel told the administration it needed permission from <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"31\">Congress<\/a> to go forward with the proposed ballroom and other renovations to the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4679112\/dc-circuit-congress-approval-white-hosue-ballroom\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4679112\">TRUMP MUST GET CONGRESS\u2019S APPROVAL FOR WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM, DC COURT RULES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s proposed ballroom project has been met with uproar from Democrats and left-wing activists since it was announced last year. The preservationist group\u2019s lawsuit is the main effort to stop the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Trump had insisted the project would be fully financed by private donations, his administration attempted to secure federal funding from Congress for the security improvements to the White House complex as part of the East Wing project, but has been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump seeks Supreme Court OK to resume White House ballroom work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2645033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26219583893803.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[65616,36794,32275,3634,32127],"class_list":["post-2645032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-ballroom-construction","tag-legal-ruling","tag-supreme-court","tag-trump","tag-white-house"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26219583893803.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2645036,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645032\/revisions\/2645036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2645033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}