"A blues rivered its way through the two of us during that drive. It tried calling us both home, cunning as a riptide. But home is as much about where you are as it is about where you ain’t."
Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · last wk.In 2023 while in NOLA, a Lyft Driver and I had a conversation about leaving home. It led to him telling me about his terminal diagnosis. “An editor told me once that if you want to understand a war, interview the grave diggers. I’d add that if you want to understand a city, interview the drivers.”
![MEMORANDUM OPINION
March 11_, 2026 [Dkt. #51]
The President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future
generations of First Families. He is not, however, the owner! President Trump ("the
President") claims that Congress has given him authority in existing statutes to construct
his East Wing ballroom project and to do it with private funds. The plaintiff, the National
Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States ("National Trust"), claims the President
has no such authority under existing statutes and that a preliminary injunction is necessary
to avoid irreparable harm. I have concluded that the National Trust is likely to succeed on
the merits because no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to
have. As such, I must therefore GRANT the National Trust's Motion for a Preliminary
Injunction, and the ballroom construction project must stop until Congress authorizes its
completion.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bfdiyietterineb3cvu3ddco/bafkreibydj27skonowgjf4z6baos2etevvsvsgyxr2gjjzamx5f42t2sp4)
