Judge Rips Apart DOJ’s Bonkers Claim About Trump’s Ballroom With Just 1 Burn
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It’s safe to say that the U.S. District Judge Richard Leon wasn’t really feeling the Department of Justice’s “brazen” arguments.
A federal judge certainly didn’t dance around how he really felt about one of the Justice Department’s claims about President Donald Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom project.
At a hearing in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon seemed generally unimpressed by the arguments made by the DOJ’s lawyers that Trump had the legal authority to demolish the entirety of the White House’s East Wing to erect his cartoonishly large event space without congressional approval, CNN reports.
But there was one argument so absurd that the judge couldn’t help but call it out.
The DOJ’s lawyers contended that a federal law already authorizes the president to make “alterations” and “improvements” to the White House “as the president may determine,” and then had the gall to characterize Trump’s ballroom project as merely an “alteration.”
Leon, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, told the DOJ’s attorneys that labeling Trump’s extreme White House makeover as “an alteration… takes some brazen interpretation of the laws of vocabulary.”
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