18 entries in the ledger
The Supreme Court on Aug. 31, 2026 granted the Trump administration's emergency request and blocked lower-court orders that had paused aboveground construction of the president's new White House ballroom. The unsigned...
Chief Justice John Roberts on Aug. 21 issued an administrative stay freezing a court order that would have required work on President Trump's White House ballroom to stop at midnight. The order set no new deadline, so...
With the ballroom's fate before the Supreme Court, the administration has put 250 workers on the site 20 hours a day, seven days a week, and told the justices in a court filing that the project is now two-thirds...
Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed an emergency application at the Supreme Court on Aug. 14 asking the justices to let construction of the White House ballroom continue. The filing follows an Aug. 7 decision by the...
The Washington Post reported that the Trump administration is on track to spend at least $900 million — $927 million by one accounting — on White House construction, combining the roughly $600 million ballroom project...
A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled on Aug. 7, 2026 that above-ground construction of the White House ballroom cannot continue without approval from Congress. The 2-1...
Judges of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington issued a unanimous order appointing Roger Rogoff — a former federal and state prosecutor, King County Superior Court judge and director of the...
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly on July 10, 2026, granted a Justice Department motion to dismiss with prejudice the case against four Proud Boys leaders convicted in connection with the January 6, 2021 attack on the...
On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Trump v. Slaughter that the president may remove Federal Trade Commission members without cause, upholding President Trump's March 2025 firing of Commissioner Rebecca...
After the administration declined to file the sworn declarations Judge Leonie Brinkema had ordered on June 12 — citing separation-of-powers objections — the judge on June 19, 2026 refused to dismiss the case as moot and...