redstate.com By Bob Hoge
As a former businessman, I’m pretty decent with coding, so I created a macro that automatically types out, “Federal Judge Issues Restraining Order Against Trump’s Plan to… [fill in the blank.]”
All right, I’m exaggerating, but I could have — I feel not a day goes by when a jurist doesn’t come along and, as RedState’s Bonchie likes to say, “jump in off the third rope” to kneecap a Trump initiative. It was quite surprising, then, when news broke Tuesday evening that a D.C. federal judge declined to block construction on the Trump ballroom, despite the lawsuit from an activist group, the National Trust for Historic Preservation. They declared that the administration broke ground before plans were submitted to the National Capital Planning Commission and did so without consulting Congress.
It wasn’t enough to move U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, at least for now:
A federal judge on Tuesday turned down preservationists’ request to halt President Donald Trump’s $300 million White House ballroom project, concluding that allowing below-ground construction to continue in the coming weeks was unlikely to produce irreparable harm to those opposed to the plan…
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