'Endangers No One': Group Defies Trump's Acting AG By Refusing To Drop Ballroom Lawsuit
The National Trust for Historic Preservation declined to end a lawsuit blocking President Donald Trump's White House ballroom project after acting Attorney General Todd Blanche used a shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner to call on the litigation to be dropped.
"I write to acknowledge receipt of your letter requesting that the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States ("National Trust") dismiss the above-captioned lawsuit," National Trust senior counsel Gregory B. Craig confirmed to Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate in a letter on Monday. "The National Trust respectfully declines the invitation to dismiss."
"The National Trust's filings have repeatedly insisted that any injunction on ballroom construction nonetheless permit work to continue on the below-ground bunker construction you have represented to the Court is necessary to preserve national security," the letter continued. "What Saturday's awful event does not change is that the Constitution and multiple federal statutes require Congress to authorize construction of a ballroom on White House grounds, and that Congress has not done so."