The Chief Justice’s dissent from the White House ballroom decision ends with a quote from Churchill that I recognize from an article that I published in 2020.
When Churchill said: “We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us,” he was arguing that the House of Commons chamber should be rebuilt as it was before Nazi bombs destroyed it. Churchill liked the small rectangular shape of the chamber rather than the large semicircle of, say, the House of Representatives. And he had interesting ideas about why the intimate, face-to-face design was better. Anyway, just some context.