Trump’s Ballroom just a Trojan Horse To Gut Environmental Law?

In a column for Vox on the White House ballroom dispute on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket, Ian Millhiser contended that the court’s determination as to whether the National Trust for Historic Preservation has standing to challenge the construction project “could have major ramifications for a wide range of laws that seek to conserve environmental resources or preserve sacred or historical sites” if it throws into question past rulings in which the court “held that plaintiffs who wish to observe something beautiful may often sue to enforce environmental statutes that seek to preserve that beauty.” “The stakes in [the case], in other words, are far greater than whether Trump can replace the East Wing with an eyesore,” Millhiser wrote. A win for Trump “could fundamentally wound America’s environmental protection regime.”