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The National Trust for Historic Preservation is the Trump administration\u2019s claim that a foiled plot at the White House\u2019s \u201copen air\u201d UFC event justifies President Donald Trump\u2019s ballroom \u2014 noting the 4,000-person event would not have fit inside the structure, and that law enforcement had disrupted the plot four days before it took place.<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, the Department of Justice announced \u201ccharges against five men for an alleged plot to carry out an attack to kill government officials and others attending the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Freedom 250 event held at the White House last Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reiterating that it \u201ctakes the President\u2019s safety and security seriously,\u201d an attorney for the National Trust wrote that the Trump administration \u201crepeatedly advanced national security arguments to the District Court\u2014including on remand from this Court, when such issues were the sole focus.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLast Sunday\u2019s event, with 4,000 attendees, would not have even fit in the proposed ballroom,\u201d attorney Thaddeus A. Heuer wrote. Heuer noted that the alleged plot had been \u201c\u2018detected and disrupted\u2019 four days\u201d before Sunday\u2019s UFC event at the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing in the injunction halting above-ground ballroom construction limited the security options available to law enforcement for the President\u2019s open-air UFC event,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIndeed, the President, the Vice-President, and Speaker Johnson all attended, with full Secret Service knowledge of the alleged plot that was \u2018detected and disrupted\u2019 four days earlier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heuer added that the U.S. Supreme Court \u201ccould not have been clearer.\u201d The Constitution, he wrote, \u201cforbids the President from exercising powers vested solely in Congress, even when he asserts that a \u2018national catastrophe\u2019 \u2018endanger[ing] the well-being and safety\u2019 of the country and \u2018immediately jeopardiz[ing]\u2019 national defense requires it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more Even Trump\u2019s base can\u2019t defend this anymore<\/a><\/p>\n

The president, argued Heuer, is not permitted to \u201cfreely violate the separation of powers.\u201d<\/p>\n

What the president can do, said Heuer, is get congressional authorization.<\/p>\n

He wrote, \u201cif the President believes any particular security incident bears persuasively on the need for a White House ballroom, he has the same remedy as his predecessors: obtain authorization from Congress, the body in which the Constitution vests plenary authority over the nation\u2019s property.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was not the first time the Trump administration had made similar arguments to advance its case for the need for a White House ballroom.<\/p>\n

After the alleged assassination attempt during the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association Dinner, the president argued for the need for the ballroom, The Guardian reported in April. The WHCA reportedly hosts roughly 2,600 people at its annual fundraising dinner, while Trump\u2019s proposed ballroom is believed to be designed to seat about one thousand people<\/p>\n

Read more Trump team just killed an investigation into the president\u2019s corruption: NYT<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Trust for Historic Preservation is blasting the Trump administration\u2019s claim that a foiled plot at the White House\u2019s \u201copen air\u201d UFC event justifies President Donald Trump\u2019s ballroom \u2014 noting the 4,000-person event would not have fit inside the structure, and that law enforcement had dis…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nWatchdog laughs at Trump's new ballroom dodge - Next Address America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2009\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Watchdog laughs at Trump's new ballroom dodge - 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