{"id":109170,"date":"2026-04-16T15:18:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/judge-trump-cant-claim-that-entire-white-house-ballroom-project-is-needed-for-national-security\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:18:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:18:43","slug":"judge-trump-cant-claim-that-entire-white-house-ballroom-project-is-needed-for-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/judge-trump-cant-claim-that-entire-white-house-ballroom-project-is-needed-for-national-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge: Trump can\u2019t claim that entire White House ballroom project is needed for national security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo1p02sa000x26pd29kwdvh8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            A federal judge has again ordered President Donald Trump to pause construction of a massive new ballroom at the White House, rejecting the president\u2019s \u201cdisingenuous\u201d bid to circumvent an earlier ruling against the project by claiming that it needed to proceed for national security reasons.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo1p06n100013b6qzcd17lqs@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The ruling Thursday from senior US District Judge Richard Leon is the latest development in a winding legal saga around the controversial ballroom, which the judge said last month was being built unlawfully since Congress hadn\u2019t expressly approved it.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo1p06n100023b6qsw74upq5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Leon, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, carved out an exception so that crews could continue working on a highly sophisticated bunker being installed under the proposed ballroom. But Trump had contended that the entire project was covered by that loophole since the above-ground structure \u201cadvances critical national-security objectives as an integrated whole.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo1p06n100033b6qgbamiuhd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Leon forcefully rejected that argument in his latest decision, accusing the president of advancing an \u201cincredible, if not disingenuous\u201d reading of his earlier ruling.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo1p06n100043b6qgqocothq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cDefendants argue that the entire ballroom construction project, from tip to tail, falls within the safety-and-security exception and therefore may proceed unabated,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/28051678-leon-ballroom-ruling\/\" target=\"_blank\">he wrote in the 10-page decision<\/a>. \u201cThat is neither a reasonable nor a correct reading of my Order!\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo1p06n100053b6qvl32v8a6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cNational security is not a blank check to proceed with otherwise unlawful activity, and belated assertions that the above-ground ballroom is \u2018inseparable\u2019 from an array of security features are not an occasion for this Court to reweigh the equities or reconsider the preliminary injunction!\u201d Leon wrote.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo1p06n100063b6qo3oj8krt@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The judge reiterated that crews could continue working on the bunker and could proceed with other work \u201cnecessary to ensure the safety, security, and structural integrity of the White House\u201d and its grounds. But he made clear that absent congressional approval of the ballroom, no above-ground construction could continue except work to cover and secure the facilities being built underground.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo1p06n100073b6qsnfu1ujv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Anticipating a likely appeal of the ruling, Leon delayed implantation of it for one week. But he warned the White House that any above-ground work that happens during that period may need to be reversed depending on how the case plays out.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo1p06n100083b6q4h07jor4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI have no desire or intention to be dragooned into the role of construction manager,\u201d Leon wrote, adding that he trusts the president to implement his order in good faith.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo1q0iat00013b6qajfbgw0m@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The decision comes several days after a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/11\/politics\/trump-ballroom-construction-judge-continue\">instructed Leon to clarify the scope of his March injunction<\/a> halting work on the nearly 90,000-square-foot ballroom.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo1q5qgw00033b6q516l3fni@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The White House had asked the appeals court to shelve that ruling, arguing the entire project \u201cadvances critical national-security objectives\u201d because the above-ground structure involves \u201cthe use of missile-resistant steel columns, beams, drone-proof roofing materials, and bullet, ballistic, and blast proof glass windows.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo1qajr200053b6qu8sm9125@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThey also include the installation of bomb shelters, hospital and medical facilities, protective partitioning, and top-secret military installations, air conditioning, heating, venting, and more,\u201d Justice Department lawyers defending the project in a lawsuit against it told the appeals court.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo1qberj00073b6q8vwa9jnp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which sued last year to block construction of the ballroom, has repeatedly said Trump is erroneously conflating the bunker with the above-ground addition.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo1qcns200093b6qk2oycwjp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe lack of a massive ballroom on the White House grounds is not a national-security emergency. Its absence has not prevented any past president from residing in the White House during his tenure over the past two centuries, or from using the prior East Wing bunker for approximately eighty years,\u201d the group told Leon in court papers filed this week.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo1qkdg8000k3b6q16xh1pif@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe defendants declare that the bunker needs \u2018adequate above-ground cover,\u2019 but never explain why only the President\u2019s preferred 70-foot-tall ballroom \u2013 and not a simple at-grade slab \u2013 would suffice,\u201d lawyers for the Trust wrote.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo1ryz7l00003b6qsrdid9uz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Carol Quillen, the president and CEO of the group, said in a statement that it\u2019s \u201cpleased the court upheld the preliminary injunction and halted above-ground construction of the White House ballroom until Congress approves the project.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo1s05qe00023b6qx8kx24st@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            CNN has reached out to the Justice Department for comment.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo1pbymo000h3b6qn7fw85ym@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <em>This story has been updated with additional details. <\/em>\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/16\/politics\/white-house-ballroom-national-security-ruling\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\nSee more https:\/\/theglobaltrack.com\/<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has again ordered President Donald Trump to pause construction of a massive new ballroom at the White House, rejecting the president\u2019s \u201cdisingenuous\u201d bid to circumvent an earlier ruling against the project by claiming that it needed to proceed for national security reasons. 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