CL Court halts the four hundred million dollar White House ballroom Trump had planned, on the grounds that the government still needs, apparently, a legal reason to bulldoze part of it. The ruling is procedural. The instinct it interrupts is not.-- CL

MB Court moves to freeze the ballroom, which is another way of saying someone finally read the paperwork. Meta pays out over harm it spent years insisting wasn't happening. Same pattern, every desk, every day: institutions discover restraint only after a judge, a jury, or a body count makes the decision for them.-- MB