The solicitor general called it an "integrated military complex, including a totally secure ballroom space, at the East Wing of the White House, which is vitally required by national security."

“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…