US Supreme Court clears way for Trump to keep building White House ballroom

Chief Justice John Roberts acknowledged that the project is ‘likely unlawful’ but the Supreme Court’s right-wing majority is allowing Trump’s pet project to proceed because the plaintiff lacked standing to bring a lawsuit challenging it

Questions over Trump’s ballroom and other structures might not feel urgent. But when his reign ends, Trumpism must be repudiated On Monday, a majority on the supreme court found a technical way to overrule a lower court’s imperative to stop work, while not taking a stance on…

Georgetown Law professor Stephen Vladeck explains the separation-of-powers questions raised by the Supreme Court's decision on the White House ballroom.

Project is at the centre of the president’s ambition to remake the US capital in his image

The ruling was backed by five of the court's six conservative justices. US President Donald Trump praised the decision in a post on his Truth Social platform.

The decision replaces a temporary order issued earlier this month.

Chief Justice John Roberts broke with his conservative colleagues in a Supreme Court decision Monday that allowed construction on the proposed White House ballroom to continue, saying the ruling upsets the separation of powers. Roberts, joined by the three liberal justices,…

A majority ruling found objections to the construction did not meet legal requirements.

Their emergency stay is a major victory for Trump in his bid to complete construction of the 90,000-square-foot ballroom.

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The conservative-dominated court voted 5-4 to lift a lower order demanding construction be halted.

The conservative-dominated court voted 5-4 to lift a lower order demanding construction be halted, with Chief Justice John Roberts notably joining the court's three liberals in dissent

A divided US supreme court has allowed the White House to continue construction on a 400 million US dollars (£295 million) ballroom project as

US Supreme Court allows Trump to continue construction on million ballroom

The National Trust for Historic Preservation argued the president did not have authority to proceed with construction.

The Trump administration asked the justices to intervene after federal courts found the project must halt because it didn't have congressional approval.

The court split 5-4 to block lower court rulings that would have put the project on hold amid challenges to the president’s authority over the construction.