CHAMBERSBURG – In a 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled to allow the construction of a ballroom beside the White House to continue.

The $400 million project would provide a secure place to host any number of events.

But is it really over?

Attorney Clint Barkdoll said, “It’s mostly settled. They’re not going to ban it, but recognizing there’s still other litigation pending, challenging whether this was legal. Does Congress have to approve it? This will take a long time to get sorted out. Trump made a filing last week that said the project is about 65% complete. So there’s this wild scenario: the whole thing may get completed before a court eventually weighs in to say whether they could have done it or not.”

Michele Jansen of News Talk 103.7FM pointed out, “I liked that the majority actually brought in the common sense of its be kind of ridiculous to try to undo all this, which again I don’t know why we can’t ever consider that sometimes when it comes to these strictly legal decisions. I mean, I do want them to be very legal, very constitutional, but we know this is mostly political.”

Pat Ryan of News Talk 103.7FM wondered, “And what about the Democrats are going to come back into power and then tear the whole thing down. That would be hilarious, and that I certainly would think that would do in the rest of whatever leadership they would have in DC. If they were saying, we hate Donald Trump so much, we better start hitting a wrecking ball on the project. In the grand scheme of things, this will protect either a Democrat president or the Republican president and the staff there around in that ballroom.”

Barkdoll said, “The Washington Post had a deep study on this project, and again, there’s some secret aspects to it. Apparently, there is a deep underground bunker that’s being developed underneath of this ballroom for security. I think we all agree that’s a good thing. So it’s more than just the ballroom. But that’s one of the concerns that with these court decisions, if a Democrat gets in the White House, could they just unilaterally come in and tear this stuff down and start changing the names of all these things, so this could just be a never-ending back and forth.”

Ryan said, “What a good use of time, energy, and effort on either side here.”