DOJ argues ballroom construction is unstoppable, and Trump could bulldoze Statue of Liberty... [View all]

…if he moved on it fast enough. Because who else in "the government" would do such a thing? From HuffPo:

Attorney Yaakov Roth, arguing on behalf of the Trump administration, argued that the group suing to stop the build, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, not only lacks the right, or standing, to sue, but at the end of the day, no one can stop the build — and if they wanted to, they should have tried doing so before the bulldozers were running.

“So, if [the government] just moves fast enough, no one has standing to challenge it even if they have a personal connection to a site?” Judge Patricia Millett said.

“That’s correct,” Roth said.

Doubling down, Judge Millett also pointedly asked Roth: "If the government decides very quickly to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty, the people whose ancestors, that was the first thing they saw coming to this country, but the government moved too fast, nothing can be done?"

"I think that's right, yes," Roth said.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/live-updates_n_6a1d46a0e4b08a03cfb9a8f7/liveblog_6a22f4eae4b0ed55359e8e4a

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Getting some "Man in the High Castle" vibes from the DOJ here.