DOJ cites White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting in push to drop lawsuit against ballroom

The Justice Department urged the National Trust for Historic Preservation to drop its lawsuit against President Trump's privately funded White House ballroom project, citing a recent assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Dinner as justification. DOJ officials argued the lawsuit endangered the president's safety and called for dismissing the case, which challenges Trump's authority to demolish the East Wing for the new ballroom.