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Sam Levine in New York

The White House power play post-dinner shooting: do what we say or else

a man in a suit stands on a red carpet
Trump at an event in Florida on Friday. Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images

Less than 72 hours after a man was arrested for trying to assassinate Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the justice department rushed to court to make an extraordinary filing.

The subject of the emergency was a lawsuit by the National Trust for Historic Preservation seeking to halt the construction of a new White House ballroom. A federal judge ruled earlier this month that construction had to stop, though an appeals court later paused that ruling.

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