The National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States filed a lawsuit this morning against the Trump administration over the demolition of the East Wing and the planned White House ballroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNo president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever\u2014not President Trump, not President Biden, and not anyone else,\u201d attorneys for the trust wrote. \u201cAnd no president is legally allowed to construct a ballroom on public property without giving the public the opportunity to weigh in. President Trump\u2019s efforts to do so should be immediately halted, and work on the Ballroom Project should be paused until the Defendants complete the required reviews\u2014reviews that should have taken place before the Defendants demolished the East Wing, and before they began construction of the Ballroom\u2014and secure the necessary approvals.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The nonprofit argues that the administration was required to submit construction and environmental plans to the National Capital Planning Commission, the Commission of Fine Arts and Congress for review before it began work, but it has yet to do so.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Trump administration, they say, is \u201cdepriving the public of its right to be informed and its opportunity to comment on the Defendants\u2019 proposed plans for the Ballroom Project. This public involvement, while important in all preservation matters, is particularly critical here, where the structure at issue is perhaps the most recognizable and historically significant building in the country.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The trust would like a federal judge in Washington to block continued work on the ballroom project until the necessary federal commissions have reviewed and approved the project\u2019s plans, an environmental review has been conducted, and Congress authorizes it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In response to the lawsuit, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said, \u201cPresident Trump has full legal authority to modernize, renovate, and beautify the White House \u2014 just like all of his predecessors did.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States filed a lawsuit this morning against the Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-345160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}