The Kennedy Center must provide one of its ex officio board members information on Donald Trump‘s plans to close and renovate the arts institution, and to allow her to voice her opinion at the body’s upcoming meeting next week.
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, in a ruling issued on Saturday, nevertheless declined to immediately rule that Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) had the right to vote at the meeting, which is scheduled for Monday at the White House.
Beatty filed suit in December seeking to remove Trump’s name from the center. In the litigation, her legal team wrote that even though she was among the congressionally appointed ex officio board members, she was muted at a board meeting where the presidentially appointed members, dominated by the president’s allies, approved the name change.
After a number of artists have canceled planned shows at the center due to the new
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