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Even If Trump's Ballroom Project Is Illegal, a DOJ Lawyer Says, the Courts Cannot Stop It

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Even If Trump's Ballroom Project Is Illegal, a DOJ Lawyer Says, the Courts Cannot Stop It
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Last March, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon ruled that President Donald Trump's White House ballroom project is illegal because "no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have." But even if higher courts ultimately agree with Leon, a Justice Department lawyer argued on Friday, they cannot stop the project.
The lawyer, Yaakov Roth, was asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to overturn Leon's preliminary injunction, which it temporarily stayed in

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