Ian Millhiser
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685 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 26 Aug
Ian Millhiser’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's really cut and dry here.
Yeah, the ballroom is illegal.
Let me just walk you through the statutes here.
The main law, I'm just going to read this statute to you, says...
A building or structure shall not be erected on any reservation, park, or public grounds of the federal government in the District of Columbia without the express authority of Congress.
White House is a public grounds of the federal government within the District of Columbia.
Trump is erecting a building on it.
Sure seems illegal if he doesn't get congressional permission.
The D.C.
Court of Appeals ruled that Trump's
In cases involving environmental laws, conservationist laws, historical preservation laws, Congress often passes laws because they want to maintain something beautiful.
Think about something like the Grand Canyon.
We don't maintain the Grand Canyon because people are going to make a lot of money off of the Grand Canyon.
We don't maintain the Grand Canyon as part of a crime prevention strategy.
We maintain the Grand Canyon because it's gorgeous.
And we want people to be able to go and see this beautiful thing.
And if someone were to, like, put a strip mall in, like, the side of the Grand Canyon, it would be less beautiful.
And so Congress could pass a law saying, no, you can't build there.
We're going to maintain this beautiful thing.
There is a rule.
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