Justice Department lawyers said the courts are powerless to intervene in the dispute over the former East Wing.

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

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