The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday issued a temporary administrative stay of lower-court injunctions, allowing President Trump to continue construction of an approximately 90,000 sq ft White House banquet hall while justices consider his emergency appeal. Without the stay the lower-court bans would have taken effect Saturday. Two lower courts had ruled Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing and the start of construction exceeded presidential authority; the demolition occurred last fall an

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday issued a temporary administrative stay of lower-court injunctions, allowing President Trump to continue construction of an approximately 90,000 sq ft White House banquet hall while justices consider his emergency appeal. Without the stay the lower-court bans would have taken effect Saturday. Two lower courts had ruled Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing and the start of construction exceeded presidential authority; the demolition occurred last fall and the project began without congressional approval. Trump has said the project is necessary for national security.