Trump Announces Kennedy Center Change After Judge Orders His Name Removed, Halts Closure
The president wants to wash his hands of the capital's cultural center.
President Trump lashed out at a federal judge in Washington after his Friday ruling gave Kennedy Center officials 14 days to take the president’s name off the structure and said he is moving to put the venue under congressional control.
District Court Judge Christopher Cooper also temporarily halted Mr. Trump’s announced two-year shutdown of the performing-arts facility for renovations. “The Court has concluded that the Board overstepped its statutory bounds by unilaterally renaming the Kennedy Center after President Trump,” he wrote.
The ruling came in a lawsuit Ohio Democratic Congresswoman Joyce Beatty brought after she and other ex officio board members were blocked from voting on the closure and last year’s renaming to the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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