Chief Justice John Roberts stepped in hours before lower-court orders would have shut down aboveground work on President Trump’s White House ballroom, handing the administration a temporary but significant win on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket.
Roberts issued a one-page administrative stay on Friday blocking enforcement of a preliminary injunction that U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee sitting in Washington, D.C., first entered in April. That injunction had ordered a halt to all aboveground construction on the planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom and military complex rising on the site of the demolished East Wing. The stay keeps crews on the job while the full Supreme Court decides whether to let the project continue for the duration of the lawsuit, a decision that could take weeks or longer.
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