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***BREAKING NEWS*** Judge Blocks Trump Changing Name of Kennedy Center and Closure
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senseandsensibility
(25,659 posts)Better late than never. Wish it had happened sooner though.
drray23
(8,832 posts)Trump did that months ago. Our justice system is a joke.
Aristus
(72,620 posts)I'd love to have him stroke out in a helpless fury.
drray23
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3catwoman3
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Dave Bowman
(7,511 posts)
littlemissmartypants
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Luz
(929 posts)Ms. Toad
(38,862 posts)The justice system is designed to be a slow, deliberate arbiter of justice, with at least one level of appeal to ensure the initial trial decision was correct - not a rapid response team.
Congress is failing to do its job - which is (in part) to be able to act quickly and check the power of someone like Trump.
Don't blame the justice system because it can't do what it was never intended to do.
TomSlick
(13,097 posts)The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine”
riversedge
(81,695 posts)Judge Christopher Cooper rules it is NOT the “Trump-Kennedy Center”…. It’s the Kennedy Center
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Boomerproud
(9,383 posts)Again and again and again. It never ends.
AZ8theist
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BlueSpot
(1,336 posts)
Midnight Writer
(25,846 posts)Maybe we will get a final ruling in 5 or 6 years.
How long has E Jean Carroll been waiting to get her court-ordered settlement from Trump?
Takket
(23,822 posts)she will never see any of the money.
riversedge
(81,695 posts)Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar
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BREAKING
A federal judge has ordered the Kennedy Center to remove President Trump's name from the facade, website, letterhead, and official materials.
Congress named the Center by statute in 1964 - and the judge ruled only Congress can change it.
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GreenWave
(12,846 posts)Go for it, orange guy or are you too afraid of Republicans?
malaise
(298,361 posts)Enough of this effries
sop
(19,487 posts)Just like the East Wing, by the time courts (or Congress, God forbid) get around to doing something to stop the destruction, it'll be too late. The Kennedy Center sits on prime riverfront real estate; Trump wants it, and he'll take it. Courts be damned.
riversedge
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BREAKING: HELL YES! A federal judge orders the removal of Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center and halts his shutdown of the beloved center.
This is an astonishing defeat for MAGA...
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper has given the Trump administration just 14 days to remove every single sign at the center bearing Trump's name and to delete all references to a "Trump Kennedy Center" in official materials for the center.
Cooper's ruling is a permanent injunction which asserts that the center’s board of trustees — which is stocked with Donald's MAGA cronies — may not proceed with its plans to close the institution for two years. The bizarre closure was originally announced after a string of prominent artists canceled performances in response to Trump’s takeover of the center. Ticket sales were also struggling.
The judge explicitly stated that all signage is barred from indicating that the building “is named for any person other than President John F. Kennedy.”
Cooper slammed the board for using “an insufficient, one-sided presentation of information” when it moved to close the center. Meanwhile, federal law “makes crystal clear” that the center is named after Kennedy, an actual President.
This court defeat is a major black eye for Trump because unlike the Iran War or the skyrocketing price of groceries, it’s something he actually cares about.
As it becomes increasingly clear that he will go down as the worst President in American history, a leader who failed his people, future generations, and basic morality, Trump has been scrambling to carve out some kind of legacy for himself. It’s the same warped pathology that has him fixated on his ballroom, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, his Triumph Arch, and slapping his face on $250.
Please ❤️ and share to thank the judge!
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riversedge
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Rob H.
(5,942 posts)where his makeup makes his face look like a rotisserie chicken.
johnnyfins
(4,050 posts)You will never be as popular, as handsome, as charismatic or as American as JFK.
Too bad, so sad.
Unrepentant Fenian
(1,151 posts)
Nanjeanne
(6,663 posts)Will not be viable. It’s great to remove his name but the excellence of the venue has still been destroyed.
state of stupid
(208 posts)can get rid of the idiot's people and actually put people on the board that know what they are doing.
Nanjeanne
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twodogsbarking
(19,467 posts)Donors are paying for it. 
wnylib
(26,575 posts)
GoodRaisin
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BigmanPigman
(55,640 posts)He NEVER EVER follows any judge's orders for anything. He knows he has all three branches in his back pocket. Think about it.....when has he EVER followed any court rulings without taking everyone to court in return?
SCOTUS, Congress and POTUS own country, they know it and will continue as usual.
I've learned a lot about justice and $$$$$$$. The two are intertwined. Especially since tRump 2016.
Blumancru
(325 posts)Before he announced the news.
moonshinegnomie
(4,091 posts)out of his own pocket
Initech
(109,366 posts)
Warpy
(114,725 posts)Not a single cocktail napkin, not anywhere.
While I doubt it will bother him that much since its opening is now also mandated (it was always too highbrow for him), I think the crooks and sycophants he shoved onto the BOD are going to have their shorts in very firm twists.
Best of all, the galas will continue, boycottted by all the MAGAts in DC, making the company and the conversation much more pleasant.
LetMyPeopleVote
(182,677 posts)“Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it,” U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper said in his ruling.
Remember when Trump’s handpicked allies claimed they’d added his name to the Kennedy Center?
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-05-29T19:36:05.727Z
A judge just set them straight.
“Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it. ... The Kennedy Center must be named for, and is meant to honor, President Kennedy alone.â€
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/federal-judge-permanently-blocks-effort-to-add-trumps-name-to-kennedy-center
The president’s allies apparently tried to convince the judge the rebranding was little more than adding an informal nickname, but Cooper, an Obama appointee, didn’t buy it. From the ruling:
The rechristening is not, as Defendants suggest, like calling the “Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection” the “Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,” which is merely a clerical rearrangement. Nor is it akin to calling the Federal National Mortgage Association “Fannie Mae,” which, as even the Defendants admit, is simply a “play on the pronunciation of its acronym.” The administration’s efforts to alter the names of other institutions — calling the Department of Defense the “Department of War,” for example — are beside the point. Most fundamentally, none of these examples implicate a presidential memorial that was legislatively intended to honor a specific public figure. The “Trump Kennedy Center” label adds an entirely new name to the Center’s formal title and relegates President Kennedy’s name to second place. If that is not a renaming, what is?
.....Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio, an ex officio member of the center’s board who was excluded from voting on the name change, quickly filed suit, arguing not only that the process was improper, but that the entire gambit was illegal for the simplest of reasons: A name change required congressional approval, and that had not happened.
Cooper agreed, writing, “The Kennedy Center must be named for, and is meant to honor, President Kennedy alone.”
As part of Friday’s order, which almost certainly will be appealed, ordered the administration to remove all physical signage and all other official documentation within 14 days. He also declared that Beatty must have voting rights as an ex officio member of the board.
If that weren’t enough, Cooper also blocked Trump’s appointees from closing the Kennedy Center’s doors on July 5 for planned restoration efforts in which the president has taken a keen interest.
“Today’s ruling rightly affirms that this administration’s efforts to rename and close the Center have no basis in law,” Beatty said in a statement. “The Kennedy Center is an institution that belongs to the American people, not to Donald Trump. He has desecrated this sacred memorial for his own vanity. I am proud to have fought for the rule of law and to protect this sacred institution.”
The president was far less pleased.
This ruling made me smile
TomSlick
(13,097 posts)It's a long read; with pages of tedious, albeit necessary, discussion of standing.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28173954-cooper-kennedy-center-opinion/