"The Statue of Liberty, like the White House, is managed by the National Park Service. Demolishing it would require legislative approval and rigorous public and regulatory review under the National Historic Preservation Act.

This argument features in the DOJ's primary claim that the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the group behind the lawsuit, has no standing to challenge the construction. The DOJ also argued that construction on the ballroom can't actually be stopped by the courts, and could only be stopped by Congress.

All of this further illustrates just how powerful the Trump administration believes itself to be: Its modus operandi is simply to break our nation's laws with such speed that no one can stop it."

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To be fair, replacing the Statue of Liberty with the Statue of Loyalty to Trump is only fair, right?

"Give me your tired, your poor tax dollars,
Your huddled masses of earnings to ME for free.
The wretched refuse of your teeming bank accounts.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost billions to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden statue of myself door!"