A lawsuit to stop construction of the president’s ballroom project was too late, Justice Department lawyers told appeals court judges

Department of Justice lawyers made the bizarre argument while defending Donald Trump’s ballroom.

The exchange came as the Trump administration argued against a legal challenge over the construction of Trump’s planned White House ballroom.

A federal appeals court weighed whether to allow the Trump administration to continue construction on the White House ballroom project.

In a hearing today about the president’s bulldozing of the East Wing...