MIKE DAVIS: Trump's ballroom win highlights need for serious judicial nominees

Last year, President Trump ordered construction of a White House ballroom and a secure underground military facility. A DC busybody sued to stop it, and on Aug. 31, the Supreme Court killed this laughable lawsuit by a single vote. Mid-construction, long after the East Wings demolition, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the three Democrat women to try to shut down the president of the United States security improvement, expressly permitted by federal statute and Article II of the Constitution, to the White House complex. This narrow 5-4 ruling proves precisely why Republicans must continue to nominate and confirm rock-solid constitutionalists all across the federal judiciary.

For decades, the White House hosted large events in outdoor tents, with womens high heels sinking into the soggy Rose Garden and other White House grounds. But that open setting provides a rich target for terrorists, including too many of todays Democrats, who wish to harm the president. The threat is all too real. Just over two years ago, Matthew Thomas Crooks nearly assassinated Trump at an open-air campaign rally in Butler, Pa. Two months later, Ryan Routh attempted another assassination of Trump at a Florida golf course. In April, a third would-be assassin attempted to murder Trump in a DC hotel ballroom at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner.

The dire need for a highly secure White House ballroom is obvious—and presidents and their guests long after Trump will enjoy its beauty, utility, and convenience. The White House regularly hosts heads of state, members of Congress, foreign diplomats, and other high-value targets of Americas enemies. Any reasonable person ought to know that, in these disturbing times, we need the most enhanced security imaginable. Trump acted. He ordered the demolition of the run-down, long-past-its-prime White House East Wing to build a privately funded, 70-foot-tall indoor ballroom, a subterranean military bunker, and rooftop security facility.

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Enter Alison Hoagland, an underworked DC busybody and member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, who claims she leisurely strolls by the White House vicinity about once a month —while real Americans, in real America, work real jobs.

She filed suit, claiming the new ballroom was unsightly and offended her apparently very delicate aesthetic sensibilities. DC U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee who suffers from severe Trump Derangement Syndrome like so many other Republican-appointed DC federal judges, took the bait. He blocked all new above-ground construction for the East Wing unless the subsurface military facility strictly required it.

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DC federal judges are legendary for their self-imagined expertise in . . . well, everything. But a judge who has never had a real job in his adult life deluding himself into believing his job is now to moonlight as the construction foreman over the White House complex, instead of the duly-elected president of the United States (who happens to be one of the best builders in the world for over 50 years), is next-level judicia