The Daily Beast
Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast President Donald Trump could tear down the Statue of Liberty if he wanted, a Justice Department lawyer argued Friday. Yaakov Roth, an attorney with the DOJ’s Civil Division, faced a two-hour grilling before a federal appeals court as he scrambled to defend Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom in a messy legal battle. Judge Patricia Millett, an Obama appointee, needled Roth on the destruction of the 123-year-old East Wing to make way for the president’s 90,000-square-foot pet project. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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