President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to allow him to build a ballroom at the White House, citing previous threats to Trump’s life, national security needs and architectural values.

“No bystander could plausibly prefer to view an unfinished 70-foot-tall superstructure to the finished” ballroom, the Trump administration argued.

President Donald Trump's administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the White House to continue construction on its $400 million ballroom project while it appeals a…