Takeaways From the Appeals Court Hearing on the White House Ballroom Project
June 11, 2026
On June 5, a Foley Hoag team represented client the National Trust for Historic Preservation in a hearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on the legality of President Trump’s White House ballroom project.
An article in CNN featured the following exchange from Tad Heuer, partner and co-chair of the firm’s Appellate Practice Group, who argued the case:
“Under Marbury v. Madison, it is emphatically the province of the judicial department to say what the law is. And the government’s position, apparently, is that even a lawless action of this type could never be stopped by the court. That is entirely wrong. That’s exactly the court’s job.”
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