The White House ballroom showdown could upend environmental law

Vox explains that the Supreme Court is weighing National Park Service v. National Trust for Historic Preservation, a case that could determine whether Trump’s plan to demolish part of the White House to build a ballroom is legal and, more broadly, whether the Court will allow environmental and historic-preservation laws to be enforced. Lower courts have found the ballroom illegal under federal preservation law, and Trump argues two funding statutes could authorize it. If the Court narrows standing or blocks suits against such actions, it could gut decades of environmental protections and conservation laws regardless of the project’s legality.