The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Trump to proceed with White House Ballroom construction in a 5-4 vote.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts dissented.

After a fierce legal battle with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Trump DOJ asked the US Supreme Court earlier this month to intervene.

DOJ Solicitor General John Sauer argued that the White House Ballroom acts as a military asset because it has a subterranean bunker and rooftop drone port.

Last week, Chief Justice Roberts allowed construction work on Trump’s White House Ballroom to continue… temporarily.

Roberts issued a stay that stayed in place until the Supreme Court considered whether to pause a lower court’s injunction.

On Monday, the high court sided with President Trump, but Justice Roberts said the ballroom construction is “likely unlawful.”

“The government has also established that it will likely suffer irreparable harm from the district court’s injunction and that the balance of the equities tips in its favor,” the Supreme Court’s order read.

Last summer, the Trump Administration announced a White House Ballroom construction project.

“For 150 years, Presidents, Administrations, and White House Staff have longed for a large event space on the White House complex that can hold substantially more guests than currently allowed. President Donald J. Trump has expressed his commitment to solving this problem on behalf of future Administrations and the American people,” the Trump White House said.

“The White House is one of the most beautiful and historic buildings in the world, yet the White House is currently unable to host major functions honoring world leaders and other countries without having to install a large and unsightly tent approximately 100 yards away from the main building entrance. The White House State Ballroom will be a much-needed and exquisite addition of approximately 90,000 total square feet of ornately designed and carefully crafted space, with a seated capacity of 650 people — a significant increase from the 200-person seated capacity in the East Room of the White House,” they said.

A federal judge earlier this year blocked the construction of the White House Ballroom after the National Trust for Historic Preservation filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration.

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals said Congress has authority over federal property modifications.

President Trump fumed and exposed the “TREASONISTS” who brought the lawsuit against the White House Ballroom.

“These are the TREASONISTS that brought the suit against the Military Complex. They revealed Top Military Secrets!” Trump said in an explosive Truth Social post.

Breaking…please check back for updates.

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The 14-day Temporary Restraining Order stays in place. Next fight: September 3 hearing on a longer injunction. Midterms are 64 days away.

Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani just told the Trump administration and Republican-led states to sit down.

On Monday, the Boston activist judge denied motions by the Justice Department, the U.S. Postal Service, and intervening red-state defendants to undo her 14-day freeze on the mandatory pieces of the Postal Service’s Final Rule on Ballot Mail for Federal Elections.

The TRO she slapped on the rule last week remains in force. A hearing on whether she will convert that freeze into a longer preliminary injunction is set for Wednesday, September 3.

In her electronic order, Talwani argued that the Trump administration and intervening Republican states failed to justify immediately undoing the TRO.

She also rejected their argument that appellate review could come too late, claiming the temporary order is likely not immediately appealable because it lasts only 14 days.

Talwani once again declared that the challengers are likely to succeed in their effort to kill the election-integrity regulations, writing that the USPS likely “lacked authority to issue the Final Rule” and that the rule is “substantively unconstitutional and contrary to law.”

Judge Indira Talwani has denied requests by the Trump administration and Republican-led states to pause her block on key parts of the new USPS mail-ballot rules, leaving the 14-day Temporary Restraining Order in place ahead of a Sept. 3 hearing on a longer-term injunction. pic.twitter.com/HuMXLe5Tvr

— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) August 31, 2026

This is the same judge who was forced only days ago to withdraw her previous nationwide injunction after the Supreme Court concluded that the earlier lawsuits were premature because the Postal Service had not yet issued a final rule.

But now that USPS has finalized the regulations, Talwani claims the Supreme Court’s ruling no longer controls the case.

How convenient.

The USPS rule requires state and local election officials to submit their ballot-envelope designs for approval and use a federal portal containing information associated with each mailed ballot, including the voter’s name, address and unique Intelligent Mail barcode.

The Postal Service’s final rule states that the portal is not intended to replace official voter rolls and that USPS will not independently determine voter eligibility. Instead, the system establishes uniform standards for identifying and tracking federal ballot mail.

The rule grew out of President Trump’s March 31 executive order, “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections.”

But Democrat-led states and left-wing voting organizations immediately ran to court, claiming the new requirements could prevent allegedly eligible voters from receiving or returning mail ballots.

Talwani embraced that argument, claiming election officials would be unable to redesign envelopes, secure USPS approval, update their election systems, train workers and upload voter information before the midterms.

The judge further argued that imposing the regulations so close to Election Day would violate the public’s need for “clear and settled rules of the road.”

Of course, the practical result of Talwani’s order is that the administration’s attempt to establish uniform mail-ballot safeguards is itself being blocked in the name of avoiding disruption.

Talwani acknowledged that states may voluntarily submit their ballot designs to USPS or upload voter information to the federal portal while the TRO remains in effect. Her order only freezes the mandatory enforcement of the requirements.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Talwani accused the Postal Service of violating her earlier injunction after the agency completed its final rulemaking process.

The final rule expressly stated that USPS would not implement the requirements for the 2026 election unless the government obtained relief from the court orders then in place.

Talwani nevertheless accused the administration of “complete noncompliance.”

Then, on August 26, The Gateway Pundit reported that Talwani was forced to lift her previous nationwide injunction following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. California.

Within hours, the left-wing organizations returned with an amended legal attack against the finalized USPS regulations, asking Talwani for a new restraining order.

She gave them exactly what they wanted.

Now Talwani is refusing to lift that block while the clock ticks toward the November midterms.

The next major showdown is scheduled for September 3, when Talwani will hear arguments over whether to extend her judicial blockade against Trump’s mail-ballot safeguards.

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President Trump on Monday made an announcement on healthcare affordability.

The president was joined by HHS Secretary RFK Jr., Secretary Lutnick, Dr. Oz and others.

CNBC reported earlier Monday that President Trump is announcing new drug pricing deals with nearly a dozen drugmakers.

The drugmakers will voluntarily lower the prices of their medications.

On Monday, Trump announced 26 pharmaceutical companies agreed to offer all of their drugs to state Medicaid at favored nation drug pricing.
President Trump previously announced a deal with 17 pharmaceutical companies.

“For decades, politicians from both parties promised to make health care more affordable, but they all FAILED. Every one of them,” Trump said.

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DOJ Investigation Regarding Its Actions Targeting Catholics Ends in No Indictments

In a corrupt and criminal Department of Justice, some things never change.

The investigation into crimes committed by the DOJ and FBI against innocent Catholics practicing their religion ended in no crimes being committed.  No one is indicted.  The criminals running the DOJ get away with it again!

In November 2019, TGP reported on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) targeting Latin rite Catholics and labeling them the largest single group of serious antisemites in America.  Note that this was years before the SPLC was found to be

In February 2023, TGP reported on how the FBI Warns Against ‘Radical Traditionalist Catholic Ideology’ in a leaked memo.

In April 2023, then FOX Host Sean Duffy (now the Secretary of Transportation), shared on Christopher Wray’s and the FBI’s attack on Catholics who attend Latin mass.

In May 2023, TGP reported on an FBI memo that was exposed, showing the FBI was targeting Catholics. (Note that we have no recollection of the Wray FBI doing the same to radical Islamist mosques. It’s as if the Wray FBI was trying to align terrorists or terrorist actions to the Catholic church and not to any Islamist sect.)

#BREAKING: We now know the FBI, relying on information derived from at least one employee, sought to use local religious organizations as “new avenues for tripwire and source development.” pic.twitter.com/97veIGtvq4

— Weaponization Committee (@Weaponization) April 10, 2023

In May 2024, TGP reported on the bitter ladies of ABC’s The View having a complete meltdown over Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker’s commencement speech at Benedictine College, a Catholic institution.

Co-host Sara Haines put her anti-Catholic bigotry on full display, calling Butker and those who share his Catholic faith “extremists” and “cult-like.”

Haines said Butker is part of “a very extreme religion” because he attends a traditional Latin mass.

She added that a Latin mass is similar to the “cult-like and extremist like some religions in the Middle East and Asia.”

In April 2025, TGP reported on how then FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino was under fire after retweeting a video of FBI official Stanley Meador, a man employed by the bureau despite being at the center of a scandal involving the profiling of traditionalist Catholics as potential domestic extremists and potential white supremacist recruits.

Stanley Meador is the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the FBI’s Richmond Field Office, who oversaw the creation of a controversial internal FBI memorandum that labeled certain “radical-traditionalist Catholics” as potential domestic terrorism threats.

On Saturday, August 29, 2026, TGP reported on how the DOJ conducted an investigation into efforts to target and create a false narrative about Catholics, and in particular those who attend Latin masses.  The FBI shared in its investigation of itself that

“The FBI personnel involved in the creation of the Richmond Catholic Memo have been terminated from their positions”.

This is simply outrageous.  Here’s why:

1. The FBI targeted innocent Catholics and, in particular, some who attended Catholic masses.

2. An individual was part of the investigation, whom the FBI claimed was a radical white supremacist.  The report omits the fact that, like on Jan 6, and in numerous other instances, the target was likely placed there by the corrupt DOJ and FBI.

3. Catholics were targeted for going to mass, which is a huge violation of their First Amendment rights.

4. The corrupt DOJ was likely working with the SPLC and media personalities like those on The View to create their made-up lies about Catholics.  This apparently was not in their final report. 

5. The DOJ investigated itself and again claims no crimes.

6. One individual involved was still working in the DOJ in 2025.

7. Although the corrupt DOJ claims those involved were terminated from their positions, they could be in other positions now, and they have not been indicted for using their positions to target a religion in the US.

8. We don’t have the names of those who targeted Catholics, and we should.  We would then know if they are still working for the government.

9. Those appointed to the Weaponization Working Group (like Ed Martin) have left the DOJ.  No one knows who is part of that group now.  The group continues to cover up for the Deep State.

10. This is a frightening nightmare for all Americans who want justice.  It must be addressed.

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