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The Supreme Court just gave Trump his illegal ballroom

President Donald Trump talks to reporters on May 19, 2026 about his proposed White House ballroom next to what used to be the East Wing. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Welp, the Supreme Court has decided that President Donald Trump gets to build his ballroom. The decision in National Park Service v. National Trust for Historic Preservation is 5-4, with Republican Chief Justice John Roberts joining the three Democratic justices in dissent. Notably, no member of the Court argued that Trump’s ballroom, an enormous structure that the president plans to build on the former site of the Whi...

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