… but Roberts dissents!
“The decision hands President Donald Trump a political victory in his controversial bid to oversee the largest addition to the executive mansion in decades.”
L&C: “Roberts, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson joining him, led the charge in the opposite direction, noting that Congress ‘has not passed any law resembling “express authority” for the Executive’s construction of it,’ the ballroom. The chief justice said that Hoagland ‘is not just any person’ and the White House is ‘not just any building,’ also lamenting that ‘[t]oday’s decision is no victory for the separation of powers.’”
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