The White House has filed a petition with the Supreme Court asking for an immediate administrative stay of the DC District Court injunction blocking construction of the Ballroom and Military complex [SEE FILING HERE].
The baseline argument is very solid on several grounds, including standing. A single complaint from a woman who walks by the White House once per month and holds the opinion of the complex as an eyesore is not standing to block the construction. Additionally, several agencies of the Executive Branch stand in support of the construction on presidential security, safety and national security grounds.
The structure extends five stories deep into the ground, and is built with hardened concrete, steel, and rebar; protective missile-resistant columns, roofs, and beams; drone proof ceilings and roofs; and bullet, ballistic, and blast-proof glass. … The Project includes bomb shelters, state-of-the-art hospital and medical facilities, protective partitioning between all areas of the building, top secret military structures and equipment, military-grade venting, a single integrated air conditioning and heating system, sniper nests, and a drone port on top, elevated by the structure of the ballroom, to protect the White House and surrounding region from aerial attacks — “one of the nation’s largest emerging threats.”
President Trump has shared additional attachments to the filing, via Truth Social:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio: “In my work with heads of state and foreign ministers, I am frequently hosted in reception facilities that are visually impressive and reflective of the wealth and beauty of the nations I am visiting. In the United States, by contrast, we currently lack the ability to hold large events of a similar magnitude on White House grounds for those same heads of state and foreign dignitaries.
Instead, we must currently host such visits in plastic or canvas tents on the South Lawn with unsafe and unsanitary portable bathrooms and accommodations unbecoming of our national stature…Our foreign counterparts offer premier security arrangements for United States officials. It is imperative that we not only offer the same level of elite security services, but offer the world’s leading capabilities in an efficient manner on grounds over which we exert permanent control … We must obviously seek every reasonable means to mitigate both the more predictable risks, including weather and physical incursions, but also emerging threats … The East Wing Project is essential to that defensive security posture. The Project is absolutely critical not only for the physical safety of guests, but also for advancing our diplomatic relations and the interests and standing of the United States in the world.”
The core of the underground complex is substantially complete, and the injunction serves to make the issues of construction considerably more challenging. The above ground features including the ballroom itself are paid for with private donations. The underground system is constructed with government funding.
Jay Clayton, Director of National Intelligence: “The Project is critical for ensuring the White House can serve as a secure location for the gathering of the President, gathering of senior government officials, and gatherings that further the interests of the United States. The Project on the Complex also will improve the level of protection and ability to manage and mitigate threats to the President and senior government officials and will enhance the handling, management, and utilization of IC information, including the conduct of IC-directed support to the Complex.”
President Trump is obviously frustrated with the ridiculous lawfare effort.
“These are the TREASONISTS that brought the suit against the Military Complex. They revealed Top Military Secrets!
“The National Trust for Historic Preservation” is a beautiful name, but even their name is fake because when they add the words “in the United States” to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, it makes it sound like a Governmental Agency, which it is not. In fact, the United States refused to continue funding it in 2005 because they strongly disagreed with their mission and objectives. They are very bad for our Country. They stop many projects that are worthy, and hurt many others.
In this case, they are trying to stop one that is vital to our National Security, and the Safety of all Presidents of the United States, both current and future, their families, staff, and Cabinet members. They were asked by the United States Military not to bring this suit because of the Top Secret nature of the important facility being built. They were shown detailed plans and specifications of this knitted, unified, and cohesive structure by Top Officers and Leaders in both the Military and Secret Service.
But this did not deter them because they suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, commonly referred to as TDS, as noted by Democrat Senator John Fetterman, of Pennsylvania. The lower section does not work without the upper section and, likewise, the upper section does not work without the lower. It is all one highly integrated unit.
The then President of the National Trust, who brought the case, Carol Quillen, had no background in Historic Preservation, and has been replaced, unanimously, effective immediately. This is similar to her departure from Davidson College, where she was, likewise, dismissed, but the people of our Country are forced to live on with her bad decision, especially that of revealing to everyone, including our enemies throughout the World, the Top Secret Military features of the Building that are already built, and/or under construction, such as the DronePort, which occupies the entire roof.
There is absolutely no argument that a woman walking her dog in the vicinity of the White House has STANDING to stop such a desperately needed National Security structure for the people of the United States of America, as it will provide Presidents, current and future, a secure space to do their jobs, especially when she never saw the Building, because it had not risen, and she had no rendering, or pictures of the Building because they, also, were in the formative stages of production.
This woman is not a “walker,” she is an activist, or serial plaintiff, who is involved in much other frivolous litigation throughout the City. In fact, whenever the National Trust files a lawsuit, she seems to be involved. So, she walked at the site of the White House, where there was no Building, and it bothered her, but she also walks in front of all of those other places, where she must also be bothered, and hence, additional court cases? She has no Clearances, or expertise whatsoever, in National Security, Defense, or required protections for the President.
She has absolutely no standing to be involved in this case and, in fact, her name is not even mentioned as a plaintiff in the case! It is this kind of gross and flagrant abuse of our Courts that is exactly why Americans are losing faith in our System of Justice. It is so bad for our Country!” President DONALD J. TRUMP




Heads should roll on this…
Heads mounted on bobble sticks
I am getting the impression, perhaps reading between the lines, that some believe the White House is no longer as safe as it used to be…are there additional leaks? DEW’s toward the White House? Seems as though this is an intelligence op as they may lose their ability to listen in on the conversations in a tightly controlled bunker.
One might be forgiven for thinking the ballroom is a cover for the security complex.
lol, one might!
The East Wing was originally built like that, few knew what was going on beneath it.
Well, given a CCP trained sniper bought a building overlooking the White House I’d say there are concerns.
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/14/alarm-trained-ccp-sniper-now-owns-building-overlooking-white-house-n2205614
After what happened in Butler, PA, this really does not surprise me.
I saw that report too and it makes no sense to allow such a security risk. Can you imagine how stupid Xi and his supporters must believe we are?
I’m getting the impression “they” anticipate an uprising. Holding on to the vestiges of a broken government. Trust in government is not eroding – it has eroded. We have tracked the descent for years.
When does this all finally come to a head?
You know the answer to that question.
After 47 exits office in 2032 or 2036. 🤪
The Third Branch is a domestic enemy.
Full Stop.
Agreed.
I would add that the Legislative Branch is too.
Without question, Mom…
Let’s drill down further…
Amen.
Neither party does.
Democrats and Republicans are globalist parties who want to dissolve US sovereignty by eliminating borders.
And eliminating the middle class.
The UniParty controls all three branches of government.
The CIA/FBI/Intelligence Community Cartel controls the UniParty.
All of the above is hell bent on turning the USA into the USSR.
President Trump and a small number of loyal allies are all that stand between We The People and Commie Town.
To be specific, it’s usually immigrant or minority judges. Always Libtards. But it seems like it’s often foreigners or newer Americans who are out to reshape our country into a 💩 hole country like the ones they or their parents came from.
When will we curtail immigration? More Europeans maybe, but how about NONE for a few years?
You forgot women judges, john.
I am noticing quite a few, as well as the ones you mention.
In fact, I’m noticing a lot women in office who seem to be quite well balanced, who seem to take a great deal of pleasure in betraying America as founded.
And what I mean by “well balanced??
Chips on both shoulders.
Democrats do not want to give Trump a win. Plus, they sure don’t want him protected from yet another assassination attempt.
No common sense for sure mean too.
nice nic 🙂
Very short sighted because EVERY President going forward will have an extra level of security with the new facility.
This is a textbook case of TDS.
Utter nonsense that one woman (and an activist judge) can slow this project down.
The Left ruins everything it touches.
The woman is also a known activist who put our nation at risk knowing the security details were top secret. She should be tried for treason as well those involved in The National Trust activist group she spearheaded.
Hopefully her dog is a 7 year old rescue “pittie” which has a sudden change in behavior during her next dog walk…..
That’s why there has ever been ONE female architect that was famous; Julia Morgan (1872-1957). I watched the a $2.2B extension of our city’s trolley system 2015-2021 and never saw a single lady construction worker on the job site either.
So, citizens who thought their electoral rights had been ignored or interfered with had no standing, but a woman walking her dog once a month and makes a partisan complaint about the view she wants to see, does.
Bit silly, and shows both desperation and fear amongst the Left, as well as how The President controls the agenda.
The standing, limitless class action, and national injuction issues are among the worst of what is wrong with the federal district courts. Congress could fix these, but won’t. Roberts could do a great deal to reign these in as well, but won’t.
They are trying to tempt PT into refusing to go along with a court order – any court order – which they hope to then use against him in the daily MSM propaganda broadcasts, but so far he has not given in to such temptations. Not sure what other solution there might be, but this is nuts.
Not sure what other solution there might be
Tar Feathers They come as a kit.
i’m kinda hoping for a michael corleone moment when all family business gets concluded
I walk my dog and I think the SPLC building is an atrociously ugly building poorly placed in downtown Montgomery, the capital city of Alabama. It should never have been built.
You should have stopped construction then?
If President Trump ignores the judges ruling it’s grounds for impeachment. If the judges obstructs national security through lawfare it’s WHAT? Spit
While no surprise that a TDS infected individual would file a complaint like this, what’s curious is that a judge would actually hear this and file injunction. We see alot of lawfare activity these days but this one seems pretty shallow and a bit embarrassing even for the court industrial complex.
“She has absolutely no standing to be involved in this case and, in fact, her name is not even mentioned as a plaintiff in the case! It is this kind of gross and flagrant abuse of our Courts that is exactly why Americans are losing faith in our System of Justice. It is so bad for our Country!”
President DONALD J. TRUMP
If the plaintiff in the lawsuit, is not even mentioned in the lawsuit…
How can a judge not dismiss?
Because the judge is a communist like the unmentioned plaintiff?
Because he’s not a “judge”. He’s a political activist.
A countersuit should be filed against the person/organization.
She didn’t file ANYTHING of her own volition.
He is gladly being used by those who want to oppose Trump in everything.
Under attack from all sides…what’s new in Trump world?
I welcome the ball room. However, I am dismayed over President Trump’s fetish for “all things gold” where he insists on such embellishments.
The man has been a developer/builder all of his life, what did you expect him to do in his final years?
Unlike Obama’s vision, President Trump is trying to build a better world, not where one group dominates another. He wants to be a peacemaker beyond the art of the deal (in my opinion).
Into the true art of architecture….
That’s a big difference between most R’s and most D’s. Republicans want to build up what they touch while Democrats want only to tear stuff down. Democrats don’t have a clue how to build anything.
Obama built a library…
Is that what that is?
I thought it was an outhouse!
There has been a drapery of gold silk lampas curtains hanging in the White House East Room since the John F. Kennedy administration.
This is not only a Trump thing.
The USA is the greatest nation on earth.
We should not be apologetic.
Imho
Obama dumpster library building vs The Trump Ballroom addition. Be glad Trump thought of making this improvement, and it is an improvement to the White House and it is not being managed by grifting dems with bad taste..
These obstructionists need to be publicly shamed humiliated and sued into abject poverty
These people really are insufferable.
Too bad we don’t have a Republican Congress. The RINO Congress we have is useless.
Again…..it’s the RINO Senate much more than the House.
As useless as the proverbial hind t!t on a boar hog!
I was an archaeologist before I retired.
My ex-colleagues are losing their minds over this, as well as proposed changes to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.
I have been getting bombarded by fundraising mail from the National Trust. It goes in the recycling.
Were they historical preservation mind-bent about this?
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.SFCN3h2kkn6snuRRha5kpAHaEK%3Fr%3D0%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=1071a2339944b66d5f39f992d41cca71c1a72bd6d2fa177ab47ce8aa423a09b2&ipo=images
Nope.
Not a peep out of them when statues that were on the National Register were torn down.
Carol Quillen thinks she’s much more important than she is. There’s a lot of them in DC.
unfortunately not just D.C.
If it were me, I would not comply, I would continue the construction of the Big, Beautiful Ballroom.
Exactly! At a certain point President Trump needs to start ignoring these so called judges.
They are all trying to murder the President again, just like WaPo and the NYT disclosing his airplane protocols.
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I’m agnostic about the whole thing because when the Democrats retake the presidency someday they’ll likely turn it into a place to host drag shows and tranny balls.
“tranny balls”??? classic oxymoron???
Maybe that person that walks by should no longer be allowed to because she is an eyesore. Let’s see her photo.
This is her:
That is the real eye sore.
Lord, give our adversaries the revelation that lawfare will never work.. we pray in Jesus’s name, amen
And Lord God bless and protect our President who never gives up and works more than any elected
person ever. Probably in the whole wide world..
Amen 🙏
Amen and amen
The white house events are staged in tents with porta-potties? That alone is sufficient grounds to throw out this lawfare for once and all, disbar and defrock that tyrant and put an end to this
BStreason.Until that happens the US facilities agencies, whatever they are called, should shut down all indoor plumbing to every federal courthouse in the nation including the Supreme Court. Park porta-potties and water jugs on the lawn of each and leave it that way until the lawfare ends.
For that matter do the same with CONgress.
Exactly. Why should these lazy people have mahogany furniture, marble floors and walls and the white house have to have guests using porta potties?
President Truman gutted most of the interior of the White House to bring it up to code and make it livable… Where was Karen then?
her parents weren’t born yet
Harry Truman was very outspoken… He would have just told her to “Go to Hell” like he did Drew Pierson…
“My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician.
And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.”
Harry S. Truman
“A single complaint from a woman who walks by the White House once per month and holds the opinion of the complex as an eyesore is not standing to block the construction.”
I demand that the complex should be built to protect the President and Vice President that I voted for, who also protects the United States and interests within, of which I am a citizen, taxpayer, property owner, and voter.
If this does not happen, I am being disenfranchised of my vote and rights.
The leftists like to talk of “our democracy,” yet one person does not make it a majority. Is this woman our queen? Where is pantifa with their No Queens protests?
Mr President, build this complex.
How would Roberts and Barrett rule if/when it goes to the Supreme Court? That’s my concern.
However their handlers tell them to, of course.
We shall soon find out.
IT’S OFFICIAL: President Trump has classified the White House ballroom construction as a MILITARY project to CIRCUMVENT the activist judges…. Genius!
even got Joint Chiefs Chairman DAN CAINE to confirm it:
“I declare there is a valid military requirement for a secure, state-of-the-art facility that provides for the physical protection of the President and the command, control, and communication capabilities necessary for the President to carry out his Commander-in-Chief responsibilities over the United States Armed Forces anywhere across the globe at any time.”
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2088611308216127669?s=20
Here is the National Trust response to the Supreme Court appeal:
https://savingplaces.org/press-center/media-resources/statement-on-emergency-application-to-the-supreme-court-8-14-26
And this link will take you to all their actions since Oct 25 re the WH:
https://savingplaces.org/white-house
If a head of state or foreign dignitary gets shot up or blown up at a White House event in a plastic tent, guess who that country is going to blame?
If Trump wins at SCOTUS can he countersue this B*tch for construction overages due to this frivolous lawsuit?
Trump should commission unflattering large nude statues of Lawfare cadre members (e.g. Marc Elias, Judge Boasberg, Judge Berman, Sussman, Wray, Barr, Durham, Stephen Halper, Flynn nemesis judge Emmet Sullivan, Mary McCord, Clinesmith, CIARAMELLA!!!, et al.) and install them on the South Lawn.
I hope the ballroom has a small private event room that is a replica of a Wild West saloon!!! Rinky dink upright piano, swinging doors, long wood bar with grizzly taxidermy behind bar, select American whiskeys and poker tables. Foreign leaders would love it and they could live out their fantasy with fake shootout with gunslingers falling off 2nd floor balcony rail onto poker tables…
Davidson College figures….
Ignore the ruling, sue this atrocious woman for being a nuisance, and proceed with construction. Ignore all future rulings. Enough is enough.
This constant lawfare obstruction is tiresome.
It is. I think that’s the point. Keep suing until President Trump quits fighting (which he won’t), or until he leaves office.
77 million won’t vote for them so obstruction, fraud is their main play.
Evil is patient and persistent.
KISS simple: Republican John Thune not allowing the Senate to go into recess while they are on vacation tells the story.
Nobody will upset the grift system and the worst part is they are colluding with mostly foreigners.
The Democrats, the Left, they are completely embarrassing at this point.
They embarrass us, they embarrass our country and they do this all on purpose.
Whatever it is, they got a bad case of it.
There is a chronological error in the article. It says that AAMVA proposed the opt-in/opt-out process on August 14. According to the states’ complaint, however, AAMVA informed FMCSA on August 7 that its board was scheduled to meet on August 14 to consider whether each state would authorize the transfer of its own data. On August 11, FMCSA rejected that proposal as “unacceptable”—before the board had even considered it. On August 12, AAMVA then informed the states that it would not produce the records to FMCSA or DHS by August 17, and the lawsuit was filed on August 13, before the scheduled board meeting.
This is more than a minor date error: it changes the causal meaning of the story. The sequence was not that AAMVA made a decision on August 14 and the states subsequently sued; rather, the federal government rejected the proposed deliberative process before the board could consider it. At the absonite level, that distinction reveals the deeper issue: whether a cooperative system created for shared state safety purposes can be transformed into a centralized federal instrument before the states that own the data are even allowed to deliberate.
Complaint, paragraphs 104–110
This project is not okay with all of those who love the Obama library monstrosity in Chicago. It isn’t about the project, it’s about who’s doing the project.
I used to think first we k!ll all the lawyers. Now I think first we k!ll all the judges and senators, ten go for the lawyers.
“A single complaint from a woman who walks by the White House once per month and holds the opinion of the complex as an eyesore is not standing to block the construction.”
PDJT should have brought out the Biden autopen and used it to sign the work order/request with the jrb “signature”. Then give it to that TDS afflicted woman.
So the POTUS has to go to Emperor Roberts & ask… like the nation’s executive is the Emperor’s supplicant.
I agree 100% with Ms Betsy. The Third branch is a domestic enemy.
The GSA needs to conduct a safety inspection of the DC District court buildings. General Services Administration (part of the executive branch) manages all federal property, including courthouses.
A dog-walker sent in a tip that the DC court building was unsafe.
As a temporary expedient, the GSA will need to shut the court building to do a thorough top to bottom inspection. It should be done in about four to six months. In the meantime all court personnel, all judges and all court activities will be relocated to a white plastic tent temporarily erected in the parking lot. Since the main buildings cannot be used there will also be a few port-a-potties located on the other side of the parking lot. We regret any inconvenience this might cause. 😉
Let the man (Trump) do what he’s trying to do and America will be a better place. Oppose it and you reveal your evil intentions.
The fundamental problem is that the “DC Circuit” claims sovereign power to stop the whole thing based on someone’s “complaint” that they don’t like how it looks.
First of all, Congress should eliminate that “circuit” altogether. A single city is not a judicial circuit, and as we plainly see it is nothing but a political cudgel. All of the cases here can be handled, say, round-robin by the Circuits from which the DC territory was originally carved.
Second, a civilian Court – nor a military one, for that matter – should have the power to either make or block a Legislative or Executive decision regarding matters like this.
Congress created the entire judicial system. It can change it, and needs to. Under the new “Trump Rule,” if you entertain a frivolous case in your Court, you will be administratively removed from your post, stripped of your government retirement or pension, and fined $250,000.
At first I thought the Left would tear down the Ballroom at their first opportunity. Erasing Trump is a top priority.
I have moderated my position and now believe they will keep it but rechristen it.
A number of titles have been suggested so far by various interest groups:
The George Floyd Memorial Ballroom.
The Indomitable Will of the Oppressed People’s Ballroom.
The Indigenous and People’s of Colors Acknowledging their Historical Relationship to the Land and Contributions to the Founding of the Country Despite Oppression and Systemic Racism Ballroom.
The Women’s and LGBTQIA++Equality Ballroom.
The Donald Trump is a Fat Pedo Ballroom.
Ballots will be accepted whenever they arrive.
Counting will proceed using the Ranked Choice method.
But Orange Man Bad
Obama built his basketball court costing more than the ballroom. This is just TDS. If a Democrat wanted to build the ballroom there’d be no problem and the tax payers would have to foot the bill!
The chicken and egg of all this is puzzling.
Was there a constituency for a Giant Fuhrer-Bunker connected to the White House, BEFORE the notion of building a “Gilded Ballroom for diplomatic receptions”? If so, when did this need arise? Who promoted the concept? Were design plans already developed (planning and documenting something of this scale/complexity would require a long time)? When did Congress approve spending for the project?
Or, did Trump’s desire for a ballroom in the Imperial Style create the opportunity for the Giant Fuhrer Bunker?
Was the Ballroom the cover story for the Bunker; is the Bunker the excuse for the Ballroom; or, did desire meet opportunity? Seems a curious way to do things in a “democracy”.
You are kidding, right? The dems/rinos/Federal Judges all love this glorious ballroom. They just hate the physical legacy of Trump’s Presidency that the ballroom will represent.
I am tired of the TDS people and judges who are operating way beyond their capabilities.
Tying up such a successful and productive President is typical of what happened in his first term via impeachments, and in court during those tedious years of Xiden. Move on, you fools!
Wow.
8-17-26
Law Professors James Blackman of South Texas School of Law and James Phillips of St. Thomas School of Law:
the motion for stay before Chief Justice Roberts concerning the construction at the White House.
“Judge Leon is not the White House landlord”.
Appellate Dissenting judge Rao: lack of standing (no merit argument) or laches (plaintiffs delayed 4 mo and brought erroneous claims)
James Lileks, humorist
The feckless GOPe fails to use the Constitutional remedy.
Judges can only ‘serve’ during “Good Behavior”.
Historically, removal of judges has invloved impeachment.
But it should not require impeachment, and certainly not a 2/3 supermajority. The House could refuse to fund judges who do not have ‘good behavior’
Having ‘good behavior’ is a higher test than requiring bad behavior.
Judges are placed by Presidential nomination and 50% Seante approval. Judges without ‘good behavior’ should be removed by a presidential withdrawal (de-nomination) and majority vote of the Senate.
The GOPE should at least impeach the bad judges for ‘bad behavior’. to force them to defend their crazy behavior, and force the dems to defend them.
But the worthless GOPe can’t even pass a law requiring voting honesty.