Making Sense Of The Chief Justice's Tango In The Ballroom Case

It was the Chief, and not KBJ, who was holding up the case. Was he trying to flip ACB's vote?

Donald Trump is going to get his gilded White House ballroom thanks to the Supreme Court, but not with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr’s blessing. The “construction is likely unlawful,” the Chief Justice wrote today in a dissent to SCOTUS’ 5-4 decision in favor of the $600 million-and-climbing venue. “The White House

Chief Justice John Roberts broke with his conservative colleagues in a Supreme Court decision on Monday that allowed construction on the proposed White House ballroom to continue, saying the ruling upsets the separation of powers. Roberts, joined by the three liberal justices, contended that the majority’s reasoning li

The chief justice broke with five other Republican-appointed justices as the Supreme Court allowed construction of Trump’s $400 million ballroom to continue.

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty Donald Trump’s Supreme Court majority has allowed the president to continue building his $400 million White House ballroom—over the furious objections of Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s three liberal justices. In a 5-4 ruling Monday, the Supreme