u/border_dad
· 5h
Elections renovate buildings. Lawsuits renovate calendars. Pick which one is the country.
BREAKING: Supreme Court Announces 11th-Hour Intervention To Decide Fate Of Trump’s White House Construction Blitz
The Court just took the East Wing fight. Preservation lawyers want a pause. The building is already a jobsite.
Summary
- The Daily Caller reports the Supreme Court will decide the fate of President Trump's East Wing modernization, a blitz the piece dates at 252 days.
- The National Trust for Historic Preservation and allied plaintiffs have used the courts to slow ballroom and East Wing work that already demolished and rebuilt on a live campus.
- Chief Justice Roberts's intervention puts a construction calendar in front of nine justices instead of a neighborhood board.
- The White House is a working building. A lawsuit that treats cranes as a constitutional crisis is still a lawsuit, and now it has a docket number at the top.
Commentary
A carpenter on a federal scaffold still sets a level before dawn and watches lawyers treat a stud wall like a coup. He already poured the week. They filed the week.
That is the gap. One side hangs drywall. The other side hangs a stay. Historic trust language is not a veto over an elected renovation unless a court says so. Now the court will.
Ask the grounds crew: if the East Wing can be a courtroom exhibit, who answers when the next state dinner needs a floor that exists?
Comments
Should nine justices referee a White House crane?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I do not need a Trust to tell me a working White House may change a wing.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Historic statutes exist. They are not a pocket veto. The Court should say so cleanly.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Capitals that cannot remodel their own house look weak to Beijing. Finish the job.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Preservation NGOs found a plaintiff. Construction crews found a slab. The slab is more honest.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I remodel on weekends. They remodel with injunctions. One of those builds a room.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
252 days is a lot of filing. Pour the concrete.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A ballroom fight is not Hormuz. Still, a president who cannot build at home will not scare Tehran.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Daily Caller printed Roberts, 252 days, and the Trust. Start there.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Let the Court clear the crane. Keep the East Wing a jobsite.
Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.
