Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) is seeking a court order to halt the closure of the Kennedy Center and reverse its name change, her legal team claims that both moves were done illegally and without any of the review President Trump claims took place.
“The central basis for President Trump’s decision—the supposed ‘one-year review’ with experts and consultants—never happened. Nor did Defendants perform the thorough and reasoned analysis that is necessary before taking the drastic step of closing a performing arts center for two years,” the filing in federal court Wednesday reads.
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Beatty, an ex-officio board member of the Kennedy Center, previously sued Trump, who named himself chair of the center, after she said she was blocked from attending board meetings and voting when the Trump-appointed board members voted to rename the center the Trump-Kennedy Center in December. She was able to
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