Somehow Chief Justice John Roberts found that a single person who walks past the White House every month and doesn’t like the proposed appearance of the ballroom has some standing to sue and block construction. Go figure. Roberts also decided that the Obamacare mandate wasn’t a tax.
Roberts joined with the minority DEI judges in his position [RULING HERE]. However, the majority decision was against the woman having standing to sue. Therefore, the lawsuit was dispatched and the building can continue.
SCOTUS BLOG – […] On Monday, a divided court granted the government’s request for a stay, permitting construction to move forward while the litigation continues in the lower court. The majority’s opinion focused primarily on its conclusion that the National Trust likely does not have standing to challenge the project. The trust had submitted a declaration from Alison Hoagland, a member who lives in Washington, D.C., and said that she visits the area where the White House is located approximately once per month. Hoagland, who has “expertise in historic architecture,” claimed that the project caused “‘injuries’ to her ‘aesthetic, cultural, and historical interests’ because she finds the ‘scale,’ ‘height,’ and ‘massing’ of the government’s design distasteful.” But those are not the kind of “concrete” and specific injuries required to bring a lawsuit, the majority explained.
The majority also concluded that the government would be permanently harmed if Leon’s order were allowed to go into effect – another key criterion in determining whether to grant emergency relief. Among other things, it noted, senior government officials “attest[] that constructing something approximating the height and mass of the intended above-ground ballroom is ‘crucial’ to the security of the below-ground military installation.”
In his six-page dissent, which Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson joined, Roberts countered that “[a] historic preservationist such as Hoagland can be aesthetically injured in a concrete, particularized way by the transformation of a historic building that she frequently enjoys, just as,” based on prior court precedent, “an environmentalist can sustain a concrete, particularized aesthetic injury from the extinction of a particular animal or the transformation of a particular forest or river that he regularly enjoys.” Roberts ended the opinion by quoting Winston Churchill, who said that “[w]e shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.” “All the more reason,” according to Roberts, “to ensure that those responsible follow the rules in deciding what to tear down and what to build up at the People’s House.” (source)
President Trump – “I am pleased to report that the United States Supreme Court has just ruled in favor of the Ballroom/Military Complex being built without any further contingency, doubt, or threat. We are living in the Golden Age of America, and this Building will be one of the Greatest ever constructed in Washington, D.C. When completed in the Summer of 2028, the magnificent Ballroom and Military Complex will be something that the entire Country is very proud of. The Project, despite the baseless lawsuit brought by the so-called National Trust for Historic Preservation of the United States, which is not in any way affiliated with the United States Government, is under budget and ahead of schedule. The Ballroom is totally funded by Great Patriots and Corporations and, therefore, is a Gift — At no cost to the American Taxpayer. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
I did some research on this woman. She belongs to The National Trust for Historic Preservation in the US, which was founded in 1949 by congressional charter. It is a privately funded non-profit organization headquartered in WDC with field offices across the US. Its mission is to empower local preservationists to save historic buildings, neighborhoods, and promote cultural heritage through advocacy, education, and direct preservation efforts. It works closely with partners like the National Park Service, State historic preservation offices, and local preservation groups. As with many of these organizations, it began with good intentions but evolved over time into overreach issues. Nothing wrong with wanting to protect and preserve our historic places and cultural heritage. But preventing buildings to be built that would fit perfectly on the White House grounds is overreach. In addition, the NT has altered its focus from individual sites to “broader” preservation issues like cultural diversity, aka “wokeism”! It now celebrates “diverse histories” including LGBTQ+ heritage. Hope this gives us the big picture, fellow Treepers.
it always starts with good intentions doesnt it. Also, its clear John Roberts has been a compromised individual since day one. Some story there for sure.
I don’t know why everyone wants to think people like Roberts, Coney Barrett, etc are compromised. As if. The simpler and more likely reason is they are complicit, collaborators. Who believe in the same collectivist authoritarian model of governance as the Communists. Because Fascism and Communism, oligarchies, monarchies, technocracies, all of them are highly centralized authoritarian governing models. Where individuals, constitutional liberty are treated as threats to be neutralized.
They are anti-Constitutionalists. Who truly believe it is a museum piece, artifact, wrong-headed. And have chosen to eviscerate it out of existence via Newspeak linguistic sorcery into the inverse of what the plain language says.
These people are not coerced. They are convinced.
I believe they are either compromised, demon possessed, stupid or their families have been threatened in some way OR all of the above!
Liberalism seems to be most damaging when it can take advantage of the once committed and honorable conservatives into weak, sick and aged shadows of their former intellect. Our examples, many still alive, are littered throughout history! Life appointments are a gift to Liberalism and a huge risk to any Constitutional Republic! There should be none!
Leftism/ leftists. These people and ideologies are far too intolerant to be called Liberal.
Good point. It is easy to think they are dumb or bad (like someone who walks a dark alley). I don’t think that is the case.
“Convinced” is a simple and excellent way of describing them.
That said, it doesn’t make their conviction any less dangerous.
History will be unkind when their “conviction” is exposed as false.
The likes of Covid Karens and Salem witchcraft accusers especially hard hit as time moves forward.
Then again Roberts may just be a compromised loser.
Compromised still fits. Morally, ethically, culturally, etc.
Sorcery.
Roberts has not been the same since he shared a golf date with then-President Obama. His sure-sounding voice before the golf date has quavered since; his stance on every critical issue since has been compromised, and again – articulated in a quavering voice. He only sounds sure of himself when articulation a non-critical point of view.
Who knows what political/personal blackmail is being held and used as leverage to control him by psych warfare and intimidation.
His stated reasons for being anti-ballroom/security construction are bogus and he knows it.
The question needs to be asked: What – or whose – interests is he serving? He’s a skull-and-bones Bush appointee, manipulated by Obama. Start there.
Ah, yes. The Good Intentions. Good intentions combined with stupidity have brought us low and are nearly undefeatable. Hope the Prez prevails on this one.
You didn’t have to tell me……..and…..I didn’t know…..but somehow……I did! These types…..like this woman……wreaked of liberalism and never Trump hysteriafrom the moment she became visible through this and her name was mentioned. Plus the fact…….if she was really concerned about historic things like this……
WHERE THE HELL WAS SHE WHEN THE BIDEN REGIME WAS TEARING DOWN STATUES AND RENAMING EVERYTHING?
OH………She was okay when someone who she agrees with in idealogy is doing it! I get it!
She’s good with graffiti, homelessness and destruction of historical monuments. John Roberts needs to step down.
John Roberts has feet of clay.
And a brain to match.
Step down? She is doing precisely what she was hired to do.
Waste tax payer time and money? She does a good job.
“She belongs to The National Trust for Historic Preservation”
I made my living doing restoration work on historic buildings. In my long experience these organizations are titled “historical societies”. We called them “hysterical societies”. These groups are usually made up of older, wealthy women. They don’t participate in the planning or decision making process and then show up when the projects are well underway with lawyers in tow.
When I first heard of this lawsuit all of this came to mind.
“These groups are usually made up of older, wealthy women” that don’t know a damn thing about architecture, construction or history!
Nor do judges and Justices.
I used to restore historic homes, & entered the field when those local HP groups were just getting started. They rapidly became tyrannical and made restoration incredibly expensive, so a modest-income owner could no longer afford to do a decent restoration.
They got into requiring certification licenses, multiple inspections by these stupid women who knew nothing about vintage construction, but expected to run everything. Kinda like HOA & condo boards.
Intolerable.
She also worked for the Green Building Initiative.
A true leftist .
Historic Preservation? Nancy Pelosi is older than the East Wing
Alcohol is a preservative.
Vinegar is a pickler, Pelosi is always pickled!
Dropped my membership 10 years ago when history was being overtaken by “wokeism”.
Me too.
Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics:
1. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
2. Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing.
3. The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.
see #2
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
Is it a road or a highway?
Where was this woman and the Trust when they were tearing down historic statues around the country? I dont recall reading or hearing about the lawsuits they filed to prevent the removal of historic symbols of the USA because of wokeness!
She’s absolutely a poser. Agreed, where was she when they swooped in after midnight and grabbed statues that had been on the UT Austin campus for a hundred years? Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, General Johnston & Congressman Reagan. UT is a beehive of woke, DEI, color revolution mush. Communist thought knew long ago to infiltrate universities and teach against capitalism and merit. Parents are to blame. The values of morality and conservative logic are not being taught at home. Now the young’s addiction to the internet is creating a future of “libtards,” I fear. But God.
Trump called this woman out specifically on Truth Social
Where have they been during monument removal and destruction?
I had a feeling that “diversity” and DEI might play a factor here. It always seems to sneak in through the back door. Ms. Hoghead needs to stick to walking dogs and picking up after them.
She needs a real job, but she could never hold one down.
Did she bring lawsuits when all of the historical statues were removed by the brain dead administration ?
Roberts continues to compensate his billionaire friend for luxury vacations.
I wonder if he can tell us what is a man?
I’m trying to remember who got their panties in a bunch over Queen Hussein’s new basketball court which We The People paid for.
A: the Chef.
touche’
soufflé!
He’s been Chopped
What is wrong with the Chief Justice of the United States of America? How could he allow this bending of the law over astetics?Has he forgotten who he is?
Have you forgotten who he is? He’s traitorous scum.
In my life expérience I have found when some behavior cannot be explained or understood, the person is being paid to reach this result or have this opinion.
Roberts bent logic into a pretzel with the ObamaCare ruling. Roberts cost us trillions and thousands of lives with that logic.
Nothing should surprise us after that. President Trump should ask him to step down.
HE IS COMPROMISED!
Ever heard of the ‘HAMMER’ that was used by Brennan and Obama to spy that was exposed by General McInerny?
It’s about a decade old and we are still waiting for accountability since this whole matter actually ended up being a coup on a sitting President.
Still Waiting for that “Hammer” & “Scorecard” to become Public Knowledge. Brennan & Obamy two Marxist-Mussies in a pod.
Ask his adopted Irish children.
They’re adults now so isn’t that somewhat mitigated?
The Irish children he bought on the black market through Argentina?
Now let’s see if Roberts can also find that voters have standing in the transformation of historic voter norms that they historically enjoyed to protect their freedom and sovereignty.
If it’s the RIGHT (as in correct) thing to do, Roberts votes with the LEFT. Justice? Uh-huh. Liberty? Not today. Freedom? Are you kidding. Patriotic? Roberts likely prefers the hammer and sickle to the Red, White and Blue.
Educated retards, sold their souls to something other than the Constitution they have sworn to uphold
Activist judges are worse than dirty cops
They should all be horse whipped once a year to keep their minds right
It couldn’t have anything to do with blackmail, bribery, or chinese infiltration and/or influence now, would it?
Maybe Roberts is worried about court packing so is increasing the number of ideologically split decisions?
Maybe he is worried about court unity and is throwing away a couple of useless votes to keep the Harpies in check?
Maybe he regrets not giving any Americans standing to protest vote cheating and is slowly building a case?
Maybe Obama passed on his leverage over Roberts to the Harpies and now the court is 5-4?
The third seems very unlikely. The rest seem very Roberts like.
Notice that on the little stuff, Roberts is all in with the voting but when it is something that THE PEOPLE want (and what does he care, he’s just another UNELECTED judge) he votes with the far left.
The PEOPLE didn’t want Obamacare, the LEFT did.
The PEOPLE didn’t want unfettered illegals crossing the border, the LEFT did.
The PEOPLE wanted Election Integrity, photo ID and proof of citizenship to vote, the RADICAL FAR LEFT didn’t.
The radical far left owns John Roberts.
Mafia judge. They can vote any way they want, until The Boss gets involved.
IF he had any testicular fortitude left, he should step down!
The Roberts Court is an abomination. This vote may be the final straw. What a tool.
“Go figure. Roberts also decided that the Obamacare mandate wasn’t a tax.”
Actually, it was the opposite. Obama wanted to call it a fine, not a tax, for political reasons. But Johnny Cartel realized he could save it by calling it a tax.
As I recall, he was first against it, but flip-flopped
after the Mob visited his housefor some unknown reason.They stole enough Senate seats to get 60 votes, to preserve their Filibuster Grift. It was a socialist takeover while preserving the private insurance fig leaf, in other words, a lie.
It was meant to bail out the Union Plans while preserving Insurance Company bribes to politicians.
In hindsight, I realize it was done to facilitate the Pre-Scheduled Plandemic, by allowing Ivermectin Bans, firing uncompliant doctors and mandating other policies like ventilators and RunDeathIsNear, etc., which the Gates/Pfauci/Epstein Death Cult was already planning.
Rest in the Vine: Ma$$ Murder, Inc.: “The Epstein Files Illuminate a 20-Year Architecture
Behind Pandemics as a Business Model” by Sayer Ji
Sorry folks……in case you do not know by now…which means you are really behind the curve…..Roberts is and has been compromised!
Obama and his spying was able to get leverage over this fake conservative!
He is NOT with us or America!
The lawsuit’s claim and potential to be granted injured my moral sensitivities and continues to threaten them because of the NT’s devolved and activist agenda. Who do I sue?
But justice is blind and unbiased (insert eye roll emojis).
Would’ve been nice if Bush II found two Alito’s and elevated Thomas as Chief Justice.
“We need to talk.”
Yes, yes, yes!! It should always have been the Thomas Court.
These people on the Supreme Court think they are…..SUPREME!
Especially the liberals……one being Roberts even though he hides behind a R!
The real issue here is how does a frivolous case concerning expansion of the whitehouse end up being decided by the Supreme Court. Radical rogue judges in lower courts are purposely trying to thwart the efforts of the executive branch by making highly controversial decisions. These judges need to be held accountable. The United States is a world class banana republic.
Isn’t it strange that our Supreme Court who, are the representatives of understanding and enforcing OUR CONSTITUTION on the behalf of the people, cannot EVER be on the same page?. When is the last time we had a unanimous 9-0 ruling on any issue?
I do believe there was one 9-0 decision earlier this year. It was a shock.
FYI: As of the current 2025–26 term, there have been no publicly reported 9‑0 unanimous decisions this year.
Total decided cases this term: 73
Cases with full vote records: 43
9‑0 unanimous decisions: 0
What is this?
https://thelegalguides.com/supreme-court-9-0-ruling-guide/
America’s destruction picks up speed with ELFs (Educated Liberal Females) You can always tell an ELF, ya just can’t tell ’em much!
Actually, I believe the hapless, compromised Roberts ruled that the Maobamacare penalty WAS a tax, despite the fact that Al Bama himself ran all around the country selling (lying) that his redistribution fraud scheme “won’t raise taxes one dime.” Then Al Bama corrupt legal team argued before SCOTUS that the penalty was indeed a tax and, therefore, constitutional. Dirtbag Roberts eagerly bought that lie.
But it was never re-designated as a tax in the Tax Code, if I remember correctly, yes??
Justice Roberts has “cemented” his place as one of the worst Justices in American history.
Nothing he does from this point forward will make up for the damage he has done to this country.
I had high hopes when he took the job, but he’s been nothing but one disappointment after another.
I imagine Roberts is relieved that he finally came out of the closet, intellectually speaking. What a useless lump of a man.
Piece of Charmin is more like it! An intellectual starts with morals! He has none.
I love the smell of Napalm in the morning.
The way to understand the modern Left is to begin with something plainly obvious—biological sex, for example. Instead of turning right toward the obvious answer, you turn left and keep walking. Each step away requires another justification, until the distance traveled becomes its own proof: “It’s the journey that matters.”
Eventually, after enormous cost and needless confusion, you arrive back where the truth was standing all along—except now children have often been used as leverage in an adult campaign for ideological validation.
Not good, not good at all. But I know, most of them mean well. The truely evil ones are using the presumption of a great divide in the US to do their bidding, but we are *not that divided, just confused monkies (some quite sexy confused monkies).
Some silver back gorillas DGAF, some do.
John Roberts is compromised, or a leftist asshole, oor both. The man is a discrace, and should be impeached!
Roberts and his buddy Norm Eisen… Stop Trump!
John Roberts = Compromised = “adopted” Irish children even though he wasn’t a citizen of Ireland.
Long ago, to the NYT published a lengthy piece regarding that adoption, likely hoping to torpedo Robert’s ascension. It has been removed from their archives. Maybe someone with ninja skills can recover it.
They fight us at every turn
We need to fight them on everything, and we have the advantage because everything they stand for is absurd.
Call them out every chance you get. Show how ridiculous they are
Sounds like a good investment.
One of the many failures of George W. Bush, one of the dumbest persons to have ever served as POTUS, was the appointment of John Roberts to the Supreme Court. W’s administration was an American disaster. We are still recovering from his policies.
George Bush was not a conservative but a useful tool for the deep state.
The old east wing looks like the breezeway connecting it to the White House and some office rooms and a large entrance room?
The new ballroom is really beautiful, functional and a better use of space. I am all for historical preservation but in this case, I think the security measures built into the new ballroom will be a better way to preserve and protect Washington DC and the White House, than the old east wing building could ever accomplish.
Plus, a safe spot for all politicians to hold large meetings or social events. Much more useful and aesthetically pleasing so really no brainer.I am already glad that they are finishing it up . No one will miss the old east wing.The ballroom will look like it was always there. Everyone will love it.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-ballroom-white-house-east-wing-demolish-a3efb2973d4d4e45f98b02e55210c538
Yes! If Obama had planned this, the praise would be deafening. DC doesn’t have a facility large and safe enough to hold state functions. It’s just that simple. Every president who follows will enjoy the benefit.
“Standiing” seems to be a useful, flexible, and mysterious concept in lawfare. Arbitrary, too.
I am not a lawyer.
John Roberts is a GWB judge with anti Trump issues.
501(c)(3)s NEED TO BE REINED IN SHARPLY, OR JUST ABOLISHED
Hans Mahncke@HansMahn
One of the most galling aspects of all this lawfare is that so much of it is run through 501(c)(3) organizations, meaning organizations whose activities are effectively subsidized by taxpayers. They then use the aura of “IRS approved nonprofit” status to confer a kind of legitimacy on themselves, as though the government has somehow endorsed what they do. It has not. These are private activist organizations pursuing their own agendas.
The ballroom case is even more egregious because the 501(c)(3) pushing this utterly ridiculous lawfare calls itself the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, a name that sounds governmental even though the organization is entirely private. Incredibly, it sits on half a billion dollars in reserves and brings in around $100 million a year.
There is something deeply grotesque about a system in which organizations with resources on that scale enjoy taxpayer subsidized status and then deploy those resources to wage lawfare against the outcome of the democratic process.
Cont
https://instapundit.com/820209
Cry Harder, Lefties! Supreme Court Clears Trump’s Ballroom Project
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/08/31/cry-harder-lefties-supreme-court-clears-trumps-ballroom-project-n4956748#google_vignette
Folks who witnessed a resounding victory for President Trump on election night 2020 woke up to find Joe Biden, perennial swamp creature, way ahead.
In days ahead we heard that many states stopped counting on election night, and were treated to video of suitcases being pulled out full of ballots and run through clandestinely.
Half of the voting electorate were told “You have no standing “.
Justice Roberts-what a sorry excuse for the Chief Justice!
The moment the house went into emergency session, and all election issues forced to the wayside the election was certified. John Roberts was given an out (legally speaking) by Nancy Pelosi. He did not have to take that out, but it sure made things easier for him.
Imo John Roberts deep down in his being knows he has ruled affirmatively on unjustly things for personal reasons. The 2020 election could have made him a hero to history, but he chose cowardness.
I despise all things Biden and DE state gov. I want to say so much about Joe Biden, but I have to keep my mouth shut and my fingers off the keyboard.
Roberts countered that “[a] historic preservationist such as Hoagland can be aesthetically injured in a concrete, particularized way by the transformation of a historic building that she frequently enjoys, just as,” based on prior court precedent, “an environmentalist can sustain a concrete, particularized aesthetic injury from the extinction of a particular animal or the transformation of a particular forest or river that he regularly enjoys.”
I am being aesthetically injured every time I have to look at the coven of liberal hags, including John Roberts. Can I sue?
The base of his argument is that people can sue for hurt feelings or because someone simply disagrees with their viewpoint. The end state consists of laws which preclude “hate speech”, “blasphemy against allah”, or any viewpoint that is not the current “ruling group’s” consensus. Effectively against “wrong think.”
There is in fact NOT a single such “right” enumerated anywhere within our nation’s founding documents – in fact, it is quite the opposite, as for example the 1st Amendment explicitly enables us to publicly disagree and say whatever we wish, even though it may hurt others feelings or be the polar opposite of others viewpoints.
The Fahrenheit 451 model of governance: “Someone somewhere might be offended=harmed by something the nobility dislikes: Burn It Down! For Safety! (But something that – accumulating over time – causes actual injury to citizens, like Justices lifting the blindfold of Lady Justice: that’s perfectly fine.)”
Also, thanks to Sundance for posting the beautiful picture of what it will look like. Downtown SF & LA don’t cause the Deep State “aesthetic injury”. Soviet concrete blocks housing their bureaucracies don’t. This does.
How does a “historical preservationist” afford to sue the Federal government all the way to SCOTUS? I assume the NGO she works for has funded it – strip away their tax exempt status along with all the other NGOs, Foundations, and bogus charities that are actually money-launderers for political (Dem) causes!
How can this ijjit Roberts believe a “historical preservationist’s” feelings override the need for this building project to be completed?
Since when does a federal judge, or a SCOTUS justice, get to weigh in on esthetics of a government building? None of us got to judge the suitability of the appallingly ugly government buildings all over the country: which We The Taxpayers were charged for.
Meanwhile, the unnecessary Iran war and our continued support of the Ukraine boondoggle continues to damage our country.
Nobody voted for President Lindsey Trump. Let’s wake him up or hope that he walks away.
A single random walking passerby has standing but a STATE for which the SC has specific Constitutional original jurisdiction doesn’t?????
Pick a random name from a hat, and that person would supersede John Roberts as a SCOTUS justice. He doesn’t even pretend logic.
Roberts has a net worth of 25 million according to Google search online sources. His yearly salary is $298,000 but he had « saved » and «invested well».
I bet he has invested well. I bet he gets good stock tips. Isn’t that one way to pay people off ?
I’m not sure what all the hoopla is about. When the Democrats take power again, they’ll be televising drag shows and homosexual balls out of it. Maybe it shouldn’t have been built. Just saying.
John Roberts is a disgraceful, deceitful, lying, corrupt pos who, if this was the mid-1800s would’ve been tarred, feathered, and run out of DC on a rail.
FJR.
Cartel Johnny and his Owners wish to keep President Trump undefended at the Hilton or in a tent on the lawn.
They are trying to kill him again while keeping Plausible Deniability.
He’s in good company. I would hate to have to sit thru their ridiculous explanation. Especially after learning some of the facts why this Ballroom is being built in the first place. I can’t imagine the last time Robert’s got his royal feet wet.