A federal judge on June 12 declined to pause a ruling directing the removal of President Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center in the nation’s capital.
Previously, on May 29, the same judge, Washington-based U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper, ordered that Trump’s name be removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and blocked officials from shuttering the venue for two years for renovations.
At that time, Cooper issued an order temporarily halting the closure and preventing the name change. He ruled that only Congress could change the name of the facility.
“The Kennedy Center’s organic statute makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the Board’s unilateral say-so,” Cooper said….
Judge Leaves in Place Order to Remove Trump’s Name From Kennedy Center
