Donald IS back to old tricks ….
In building in New York City?
He’s bend the building code rules….
Complainst and even legal actions wouldn’t stop his construction….
In the end?
He’s get his way….
An extra few stories in the building….
Something the code required….
Nope….
And he would boast that he wasn’t gonna pay the fine’s in the end…
Move to TODAY….
The President Donald gets the site approval from people HE Picked….
The Federal judges answering legal suits says ‘STOP’….
‘Ya need Congress’…..
He just tells the construction guys…..
‘Move Faster’….
Then?
His minions tells the judges ….
‘Well it’s toooooo Late’
And Donald sits back and smiles?
With the fate of his ballroom tied up in court, President Trump is racing against the clock.
He has enlisted a team of 250 workers to push ahead with construction 20 hours a day, seven days a week to complete as much work as quickly as possible. This week, there are plans to install one million pounds of rebar and pour 3,000 cubic yards of concrete for a project that is now two-thirds complete, the administration said in a court filing.
Now, with the matter pending before the Supreme Court, the Trump administration is making a practical appeal to the justices: The ballroom is simply too far along to be stopped now.
“His strategy clearly is to change the reality on the ground so that instead of preserving the status quo, those who rightly invoke the law against what he’s doing are put in a position of having to undo something that is already a fait accompli,” said Laurence H. Tribe, an emeritus university professor of constitutional law at Harvard.
For years, Mr. Trump has argued that the White House should have its own ballroom, saying it was a matter of prestige on the world stage. A ballroom, he said, would allow officials to hold big events for special guests without needing to erect a tent on the South Lawn.
In recent months, as preservationists and other critics have tried to halt or at least slow down the project, Mr. Trump has offered a new justification: national security. Essentially, Mr. Trump is treating the ballroom and the military bunker underneath it as one and the same.
The bunker — officially known as the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, or PEOC — was built during World War II beneath what was once the East Wing, which Mr. Trump tore down last year to make way for his ballroom….
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After an armed man rushed the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in April, for example, Mr. Trump said on social media that the mayhem had proved the need for “the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House.”
Mr. Trump demolished the East Wing last October without seeking any approvals or submitting construction or demolition plans to Congress. While he did bring the project before two review panels whose leaders he had appointed, Mr. Trump has continued to change the plans from the designs they authorized.
Several federal court rulings have found that the president exceeded his authority by moving ahead without congressional approval, but the decisions have been paused pending appeals — which means the construction can go on at least until Friday, when an appeals court order to halt the aboveground construction goes into effect.
The case is also pending before the Supreme Court.
Last week, the Trump administration told the Supreme Court the president was adding flashy golden seals on the outside of the ballroom, a design element that was never submitted to the Commission of Fine Arts.
Joshua Fisher, the director of White House management and administration, told the court that a concrete-and-steel superstructure had already been built that stretches five stories deep and 70 feet high.
Mr. Fisher said 80 percent of the rebar for the project had been placed, and the concrete poured…..
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The message was clear: The ballroom cannot be undone.
But in a filing on Tuesday, the preservationists challenging the project told the justices that the administration was trying to “outrun judicial review” by suggesting that it was too late to stop the construction.
“They tell this court that because the ballroom is being built with the type of concrete used ‘in nuclear power plants,’ it will soon be ‘virtually impossible to deconstruct,’” according to the filing.
Lawyers for the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, a nonprofit chartered by Congress to guard America’s historic buildings, said the administration had intentionally accelerated construction “in an effort to put their illegal ballroom” beyond judicial intervention….
Note….
OF COURSE ?
The construction COULD BE HALTED….
Heck ?
The current construction COULD be TORN DOWN……
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