Reframe the question and it becomes very clear. If you hire a manager to run your estate can that manager burn down the buildings on your estate or chop it and sell it off in parcels? Pretty obviously not. The president doesn't own the country. He's hired to administer it for four years.
Josh Marshall
“If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty... nothing can be done?” asked Judge Patricia Millett.
“I think that’s right, yes,” responded DOJ attorney Yaakov Roth
www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
Justice Department lawyers said the courts are powerless to intervene in the dispute over the former East Wing.
