Last year, President Trump ordered construction of a White House ballroom and a secure underground military facility.
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Trump → order → ballroom
A DC busybody sued to stop it, and on Aug. 31, the Supreme Court killed this laughable lawsuit by a single vote.
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Court → sue → vote
Mid-construction, long after the East Wing’s demolition, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the three Democrat women to try to shut down the president of the United States’ security improvement, expressly permitted by federal statute and Article II of the Constitution, to the White House complex.
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Roberts → join → complex
This narrow 5-4 ruling proves precisely why Republicans must continue to nominate and confirm rock-solid constitutionalists all across the federal judiciary.
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Republicans → prove → judiciary
For decades, the White House hosted large events in outdoor tents, with women’s high heels sinking into the soggy Rose Garden and other White House grounds.
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heels → host → Garden
But that open setting provides a rich target for terrorists, including too many of today’s Democrats, who wish to harm the president.
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who → provide → president
Just over two years ago, Matthew Thomas Crooks nearly assassinated Trump at an open-air campaign rally in Butler, Pa.
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Crooks → assassinate → Butler
Two months later, Ryan Routh attempted another assassination of Trump at a Florida golf course.
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Routh → attempt → course
In April, a third would-be assassin attempted to murder Trump in a DC hotel ballroom at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
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assassin → attempt → Dinner
The dire need for a highly secure White House ballroom is obvious—and presidents and their guests long after Trump will enjoy its beauty, utility, and convenience.
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presidents → enjoy → beauty
The White House regularly hosts heads of state, members of Congress, foreign diplomats, and other high-value targets of America’s enemies.
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House → host → enemies
Any reasonable person ought to know that, in these disturbing times, we need the most enhanced security imaginable.
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we → know → security
Trump acted.
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Trump → act → ?
He ordered the demolition of the run-down, long-past-its-prime White House East Wing to build a privately funded, 70-foot-tall indoor ballroom, a subterranean military bunker, and rooftop security facility.
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He → order → ballroom
Enter Alison Hoagland, an underworked DC busybody and member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, who claims she leisurely strolls by the White House vicinity about once a month —while real Americans, in real America, work real jobs.
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Americans → enter → jobs
She filed suit, claiming the new ballroom was unsightly and offended her apparently very delicate aesthetic sensibilities.
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ballroom → file → sensibilities
DC U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee who suffers from severe Trump Derangement Syndrome like so many other Republican-appointed DC federal judges, took the bait.
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who → suffer → bait
He blocked all new above-ground construction for the East Wing unless the subsurface military facility strictly required it.
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facility → block → it
DC federal judges are legendary for their self-imagined expertise in . . . well, everything.
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judges → imagine → everything
But a judge who has never had a real job in his adult life deluding himself into believing his job is now to moonlight as the construction foreman over the White House complex, instead of the duly-elected president of the United States (who happens to be one of the best builders in the world for over 50 years), is next-level judicial narcissism and lawlessness.
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who → have → years
Unsurprisingly, the Democrat-dominated DC Circuit upheld Leon’s rogue ruling over a superb dissent by U.S. Circuit Judge Neomi Rao, a former law clerk to America’s all-time-greatest Justice Clarence Thomas.
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Circuit → dominate → Thomas
The Trump administration took the fight to the Supreme Court, as these DC federal courts would turn the White House complex into a stop-work construction site for years.
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courts → take → years
Article III of the U.S. Constitution requires a plaintiff to have standing.
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Article → require → standing
In order to bring suit in federal court, a plaintiff needs a concrete, redressable injury that has already occurred or which imminently looms.
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which → bring → injury
Plaintiff/DC busybody Alison Hoagland had nothing but her hurt feelings.
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Hoagland → have → feelings
The High Court has never held that mere personal offense gives someone the right to bring a federal case.
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offense → hold → case
Five of the six Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices correctly rejected Hoagland’s crackpot standing claim.
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Five → appoint → claim
Ruling for her would let anyone file a lawsuit to stop any government building project in America based on aesthetics and hurt feelings.
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anyone → rule → aesthetics
The majority also torched Leon’s unworkable injunction.
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majority → torch → injunction
Leon, the self-appointed construction foreman as even former U.S. Attorney General William Barr —certainly no Trump cheerleader —mocked him , demanded the White House prove every foot of the project served a critical purpose, a subjective standard that would require endless court appearances, construction delays for years, and unnecessary security risks at the White House complex.
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that → appoint → complex
Yet Chief Justice John Roberts ignored this basic logic and decided to pen a truly cringeworthy dissent.
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Roberts → ignore → dissent
He argued standing depends on whether a government building is "iconic."
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building → argue → ?
He cherry-picked a century-old quote from Theodore Roosevelt to invent a limitless theory of standing.
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He → pick → standing
This ludicrous view came within one vote of prevailing.
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view → come → prevailing
Earlier this year, Leon enjoined lawful sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the International Criminal Court’s head prosecutor.
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Leon → enjoin → Albanese
The ICC had issued an absurd arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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ICC → issue → Netanyahu
Trump rightfully sanctioned the ICC and its officials.
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Trump → sanction → ICC
But that didn’t faze Leon.
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that → faze → Leon
Leon protected Albanese simply because her husband and children hold American citizenship.
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husband → protect → citizenship
Thankfully, a D.C. Circuit panel stayed Leon’s stunning injunction, and the sanctions against Albanese remain in effect.
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sanctions → stay → effect
…and 14 more, not listed.
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