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As someone who transitioned from the world of business to coding, I’ve become quite adept at crafting macros. It crossed my mind to design one that routinely inputs the phrase, “Federal Judge Issues Restraining Order Against Trump’s Plan to… [fill in the blank].”
Of course, I’m exaggerating a bit, but it certainly seems like a day rarely passes without a judge stepping into the spotlight to thwart a Trump initiative. However, it came as a surprise when news emerged on Tuesday evening that a federal judge in D.C. chose not to halt the progress of a Trump ballroom construction project. This decision came despite a lawsuit filed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, an activist group, which argued that the administration commenced construction before submitting plans to the National Capital Planning Commission and without consulting Congress.
Nevertheless, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, appointed by George W. Bush, wasn’t persuaded to intervene at this juncture:
Attorney General Pam Bondi hailed this development as a victory, acknowledging that although there will be further legal challenges, this was a significant win:
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U.S. District Judge Richard Leon denied the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s request for a temporary restraining order, but said he would hear arguments early next year about whether to issue a longer-term preliminary injunction against the project.
Attorney General Pam Bondi celebrated the win, even if there are more battles to come in the case:
Today @TheJusticeDept attorneys defeated an attempt to stop President Trump’s totally lawful East Wing Modernization and State Ballroom Project.
President Trump has faced countless bad-faith left-wing legal attacks — this was no different.
We will continue defending the…
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) December 16, 2025
We will continue defending the President’s project in court in the coming weeks.
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As I mentioned, the battle isn’t over, and the administration will need to provide updates to the judge on schedule:
The Trump administration told U.S. District Judge Richard Leon on Tuesday that within the next “two weeks” it expects to meet with the National Capital Planning Commission and the Commission of Fine Arts to review plans that Justice Department attorney Adam Gustafson told the court were not yet finalized.
Tad Heuer, the national trust’s attorney, quipped that with this administration, “It’s always going to happen in the next two weeks.”
“The court will hold them to that,” the judge responded. “They have until the end of this month.”
The Left acts as if Trump is the first president to ever think of modernizing and renovating the White House, but it’s not so:
If you are willing to do a little searching, you will find out the original idea to create the ballroom was long before Trump and the original idea was for the two sides to match as you can see from the photos. They just didn’t have the tax dollars to fund it. Now Trump and… pic.twitter.com/tBtyOJFHuZ
— Mike Netter (@nettermike) November 8, 2025
Now Trump and private donors are paying to make it happen.
It’s been pathetic to see leftists and Democrats whining about the cost of Trump’s massive ballroom — even though it’s entirely privately funded — even while Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota was asleep at the wheel when hundreds of millions of dollars were defrauded from federally funded nutrition programs run by the state. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, meanwhile, criticizes the ballroom project in his endless mean tweets, but he himself is unaware or unwilling to reveal how much a massive state capitol project is costing taxpayers, even though it’s being built right down the street from his office.
Your Capitol renovation is costing California taxpayers $1.1 BILLION — 4x more than the privately funded White House ballroom, which costs taxpayers NOTHING. pic.twitter.com/xOOOtGrIsk
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 21, 2025
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The court proceedings over the big project will continue, but it was nice for one day at least to write that a federal judge actually declined an opportunity to derail the duly elected president’s agenda. As my grandmother might have said, “Wonders will never cease.”
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