The D.C. Circuit in a 2-1 ruling on August 7 upheld a lower-court judge’s order directing the administration to halt above-ground construction.

“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…