The Supreme Court Is Letting Trump Get His White House Ballroom on a Technicality The recent Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to continue building its new White House ballroom has raised eyebrows, but not necessarily because of the project itself.
The controversy surrounds a technicality – one that speaks volumes about the increasingly narrow focus on standing in federal court cases.
Chief Justice John Roberts and three liberal justices dissented from the majority opinion, with Roberts accusing his colleagues of allowing a likely infringement of Congress' constitutional authority to continue due to a restrictive interpretation of who can sue in federal court.