Bush-appointed judge rejects National Trust for Historic Preservation's request to stop Trump's ballroom

President Donald Trump's crusade to give the White House a $300 million ballroom was allowed to proceed on Tuesday, as a federal judge denied an emergency request to halt the posh project.

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, a Bush-appointed judge, rejected a request from the National Trust for Historic Preservation to stop the renovation, finding that allowing subsurface work to proceed posed merely a minimal risk of permanently damaging the project's opponents, Politico reported. The preservationists had sought a temporary block. The judge agreed to consider a longer preliminary injunction when arguments resume early next year.

The Trump administration must present its plans to the National Capital Planning Commission by the end of December, the judge ordered.

"The court will hold them to that," Leon said at a crowded hearing. "They've got until the end of this month."

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