{"id":31276,"date":"2026-09-01T09:11:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=31276"},"modified":"2026-09-01T09:11:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:11:48","slug":"supreme-court-clears-way-for-white-house-ballroom-construction-to-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/09\/01\/supreme-court-clears-way-for-white-house-ballroom-construction-to-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court clears way for White House ballroom construction to continue\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 but Roberts dissents!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/31\/supreme-court-clears-way-work-white-house-ballroom-now\/\">WaPo:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The decision hands President Donald Trump a political victory in his controversial bid to oversee the largest addition to the executive mansion in decades.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>L&#038;C: &#8220;Roberts, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson joining him, led the charge in the opposite direction, noting that Congress &#8216;has not passed any law resembling &#8220;express authority&#8221; for the Executive&#8217;s construction of it,&#8217; the ballroom. The chief justice said that Hoagland &#8216;is not just any person&#8217; and the White House is &#8216;not just any building,&#8217; also lamenting that &#8216;[t]oday&#8217;s decision is no victory for the separation of powers.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 but Roberts dissents!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}