January 1, SHOCKING Supreme Court Betrayal Nearly Stopped Critical Trump Security Project

Wyatt’s Take

• Chief Justice John Roberts sided with three liberal justices in a near-miss attempt to shut down Trump’s White House security upgrades—proving once again why Republican judicial picks can’t be wishy-washy establishment types
• After three assassination attempts targeting Trump, a DC busybody who strolls past the White House once a month successfully convinced multiple judges to halt construction of a secure ballroom and military bunker
• Roberts’ pattern of siding with Democrats on Obamacare, DACA, and birthright citizenship for illegals shows the urgent need for rock-solid constitutionalists, not country club Republicans in robes

President Trump ordered construction of a White House ballroom and a secure underground military facility to protect our nation’s leaders. But a DC lawsuit nearly killed the entire project—by a single Supreme Court vote.

Chief Justice John Roberts joined three liberal justices in an attempt to shut down the president’s security improvements, expressly permitted by federal law and the Constitution. The 5-4 ruling came mid-construction, long after demolition had begun.

For decades, the White House hosted events in outdoor tents, with guests exposed to the elements and potential threats. Women’s heels sank into the soggy Rose Garden. But that open setting provides a rich target for terrorists and anyone wishing to harm the president.

The threat is all too real. Just over two years ago, an assassin nearly killed Trump at an open-air rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Two months later, another would-be killer tried again at a Florida golf course.

In April, a third assassin attempted to murder Trump in a DC hotel ballroom at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

The need for a highly secure White House ballroom is obvious. The White House regularly hosts heads of state, members of Congress, foreign diplomats, and other high-value targets of America’s enemies.

Trump acted. He ordered demolition of the run-down East Wing to build a privately funded, 70-foot-tall indoor ballroom, a subterranean military bunker, and rooftop security facility.

Enter Alison Hoagland, a DC busybody and member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She claims she leisurely strolls by the White House vicinity about once a month—while real Americans work real jobs.

She filed suit, claiming the new ballroom was unsightly and offended her delicate aesthetic sensibilities. DC District Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, took the bait.

He blocked all new above-ground construction for the East Wing unless the subsurface military facility strictly required it.

DC federal judges are legendary for their self-imagined expertise in everything. But a judge who has never had a real job deluding himself into believing he should act as construction foreman over the White House complex is next-level judicial narcissism.

The president happens to be one of the best builders in the world with over 50 years of experience.

The Democrat-dominated DC Circuit upheld Leon’s rogue ruling. The Trump administration took the fight to the Supreme Court, as these DC courts would turn the White House complex into a stop-work construction site for years.

The Constitution requires a plaintiff to have standing—a concrete, redressable injury that has already occurred or imminently looms. Hoagland had nothing but hurt feelings.

The Supreme Court has never held that mere personal offense gives someone the right to bring a federal case.

Five of the six Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices correctly rejected Hoagland’s standing claim. Ruling for her would let anyone file a lawsuit to stop any government building project in America based on aesthetics and hurt feelings.

The majority also torched Leon’s unworkable injunction. Even former Attorney General William Barr—no Trump cheerleader—mocked Leon’s demand that the White House prove every foot of the project served a critical purpose.

Yet Chief Justice John Roberts ignored basic logic and decided to pen a dissent. He argued standing depends on whether a government building is “iconic.”

He cherry-picked a century-old quote from Theodore Roosevelt to invent a limitless theory of standing. This view came within one vote of prevailing.

Earlier this year, Leon enjoined lawful sanctions against the International Criminal Court’s head prosecutor. The ICC had issued an absurd arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump rightfully sanctioned the ICC and its officials. But Leon protected the prosecutor simply because her husband and children hold American citizenship.

Thankfully, a DC Circuit panel stayed Leon’s stunning injunction.

Roberts’ record is even worse. He cast the deciding vote to uphold Obamacare in 2012, killed the first Trump administration’s census citizenship question in 2020, and protected DACA in 2020.

He penned a gratuitous concurrence noting he was not voting to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022, one of the worst decisions in Supreme Court history.

This June, Roberts authored an egregiously wrong opinion constitutionalizing birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants—including 1.5 million Chinese birth tourists. Roberts’ ruling is the gravest betrayal of our most crucial sovereign power: to control who becomes one of us.

It could have been worse. Bush put former Circuit Judge J. Michael Luttig on his Supreme Court short list.

This is the same Luttig who advocated throwing Trump off the 2024 ballot under the preposterous theory that he committed “insurrection” on January 6, 2021. That argument didn’t garner a single vote at the Supreme Court—not even from the three liberal justices who generally rule against Trump.

We demand staunch constitutionalists in the mold of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Decades of spineless Republican judges—particularly in the DC swamp—have severely damaged this nation.

Bold and fearless constitutionalists like new Trump-appointed Circuit Judge Emil Bove represent our future.

Why It Matters

Working Americans understand basic common sense: when someone tries to kill the president three times, you build better security. But DC elites—including judges appointed by Republicans—think their feelings about architecture matter more than protecting our leaders. This is exactly why Trump fought so hard for real conservatives on the bench, not country club Republicans who care more about cocktail party invites than the Constitution. The swamp runs deep, even in our courtrooms.