The fight over Trump’s White House ballroom just took a dramatic turn

Trump’s controversial plan to build an enormous ballroom adjacent to – and larger than – the White House just ground to a halt. A federal appeals court in Washington D.C. ruled on Friday that President Trump’s ballroom construction isn’t lawful and must stop. In a two to one opinion, Judges Patricia Millett and Bradley Garcia asserted that “each president is a temporary tenant, not the owner, of the White House and its Executive Residence,” thus Trump lacks the power to unilaterally rebuild the…