US Supreme Court temporarily allows White House ballroom construction

The US Supreme Court on Friday (US local time) temporarily allowed the construction of a White House ballroom to continue.

Chief Justice John Roberts issued a temporary stay that freezes lower court rulings that would have required construction to stop, without addressing the legality of the project.

In court filings, the Trump administration said that as of August 14,



construction was 65 per cent complete on the 400-million-US-dollar, privately funded project. The filing also showed that a 250-person crew has been working 20 hours a day, seven days a week.

The Supreme Court’s latest move came two weeks after a divided federal appeals court in Washington ruled on August 7 that US President Donald Trump had been unlawfully constructing the new ballroom at the White House.