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Judge orders Trump's name removed from the Kennedy Center

Boing Boing·Rob Beschizza·2 days ago
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President Trump had his name added to the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts , having stacked its board with cronies, then closed the center for "renovations" after credible performers began giving the fabled institution a wide berth. A judge today ordered Trump's name removed from the center, ruled that only Congress can rename it, and ordered it to be reopened. "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," U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper wrote. "Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it." Reuters reports that the outcome concludes a lawsuit brought by Ohio Democratic U.S.…

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