Appeals court majority appears sympathetic to White House ballroom challenge

A majority on a three-judge appeals court panel appeared sympathetic to a challenge to President Trump’s White House ballroom project at oral arguments Friday.

The two Democratic-appointed judges pressed the government on its arguments that Congress has already given all necessary approvals and that a preservationist group has no right to sue.

“If the government decided very quickly and bulldozed the Statue of Liberty, the people whose ancestors, that was the first...