Trump's White House ballroom project stopped dead in its tracks with new court block

U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon blocked President Donald Trump from further construction of his White House ballroom project.

In a three-page order on Tuesday, Leon granted a preliminary injunction requested by the National Trust for Historic Preservation of the United States.

The judge said that administration officials from the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, General Services Administration and Executive Office of the President were enjoined from "taking...