Appellate Court Orders Halt to Ballroom Construction

The plaintiff in the case is the National Trust for Historic Preservation, but that organization has nothing to do with the White House grounds, which are under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service. The Trust claims to have standing to sue because it has a member who occasionally walks past the White House and thinks she will consider the new ballroom to be aesthetically unpleasant.

The Supreme Court will knock this out for the plaintiffs’ lack of standing, but how many millions of dollars will be wasted and jobs lost while this huge project is shut down? I’m guessing that, like much of the Democrats’ moves, the object here is to delay until they can regain control of Congress and change laws or, in this case, sue to stop it; unlike our offended pedestrian, Congress probably does have standing in this matter.

So perhaps this approach as a preventative measure against any more of these TDS deranged, whack-job judges’ ilegal rulings:

Florida business owners allegedly scattered 1,500 mothballs on beach to send endangered birds packing

On the other hand, here’s a shutdown effort I can heartily endorse, and I extend my congratulations to its originators:

🚨NEWS: Authorities fear others will copy a group in Seville, Spain who spread pig bones on the construction site a Mosque was set to be built on, making the land impure and stopping the work.

The group received widespread praise on social media for their efforts.
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) August 8, 2026