Preservation group urges Supreme Court to suspend White House ballroom project

WASHINGTON (AP) — A historic preservation group that sued to block construction of President Donald Trump's White House ballroom urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to suspend the project while it considers whether the work can continue. The National Trust for Historic Preservation filed its request less than a week after the Trump administration asked the nation's highest court to allow the White House to continue construction on its $400 million ballroom project during the appeals process. Lawyers for the trust accused the administration of trying to "outrun judicial review" rather than obtain permission for the work from Congress, as required by federal law. The administration "cannot identify any statute granting them 'express authority' to destroy a third of the White House and replace it with a massive, privately funded ballroom, because none exists," trust attorneys wrote.

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