DOJ Declares Trump Has Right to Bulldoze Statue of Liberty (opens in new tab)

Why in the world did the Department of Justice just declare that President Donald Trump has the right to demolish the Statue of Liberty?During oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington Friday, lawyers for the DOJ presented the government’s case for continuing construction on Trump’s increasingly expensive White House ballroom without the approval of Congress. In order to demonstrate Trump’s supposedly far-reaching power to destroy and alter national monuments at whim, the ...