In the filing, the Kennedy Center said the court should grant a stay of the judge’s order, because it has “strong arguments to raise on appeal,” and that removing Trump’s name would be “both wasteful for the Center and confusing for the public.”
“The far more sensible course is to allow the D.C. Circuit to adjudicate this appeal before requiring these sorts of compliance measures,” the center argues.
The latest legal back and forth may lengthen a drama that began six months ago, when the Kennedy Center’s Board of Trustees, which is packed with Trump’s allies, voted “unanimously” to rename the cultural center to the Trump Kennedy Center. Instead of replacing the building’s signage, workers added the words “The Donald J. Trump and” above the existing lettering, changing the building’s name to “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.”
The move drew immediate backlash and a lawsuit from Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio, one of the board’s ex-officio members who had been stripped of voting power on the board.
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