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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Isabel Keane

Group refuses to drop Trump Ballroom lawsuit despite pressure from justice department

Preservationists are moving ahead with their lawsuit challenging the construction of President Donald Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom – even after the Justice Department pressured them into dropping it.

Trump’s Justice Department urged the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which sued in December to stop the construction, to dismiss its lawsuit by Monday morning.

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