A federal judge indicated Tuesday that he won’t order President Donald Trump to instantly cease work on the huge new White House ballroom.
But US District Judge Richard Leon left open the chance that he may intervene in the high-stakes authorized combat over the project at a later time.
For now, Leon stated, the nation’s high historic preservation group that sued over the project hadn’t proven the way it was being irreparably harmed by the building in a approach that required rapid court docket intervention.
But Leon, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, warned that that underground work set to be accomplished in coming months should not dictate the ballroom’s eventual measurement or form.
If it does, he stated, it must be taken down.
Leon set one other listening to in the case for mid-January.
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