Federal choose blocks work on the brand new White House social gathering room | EUROtoday

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A federal choose has ordered the Trump Administration to halt development of the brand new $400 million Ballroom, for which the East Wing of the White House was demolished. Judge Richard Leon, working in Washington, granted the request of a historic safety group, granting a preliminary injunction that briefly blocks the venture of the brand new ballroom wished by President Trump. “No law gives the president even remotely the authority he claims to possess,” wrote the choose, who was appointed by Republican President George W. Bush. «The President of the United States is the guardian of the White House for future generations of “First Families”. However, he isn’t the proprietor!”, the judge wrote again.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation had sued to obtain a stay on the Ballroom project until it had undergone several independent reviews and received congressional approval. Trump proceeded with the project before even requesting the opinion of two federal supervisory bodies: the National Capital Planning Commission and the Commission of Fine Arts, in which he had installed people loyal to him.

The president reacted angrily to the blockade of construction of his immense White House ballroom, accusing the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which sued him, of being “a bunch of left-wing extremists made up of lunatics.”