Federal judge permanently blocks effort to add Trump’s name to Kennedy Center
Donald Trump has probably grown accustomed to losing important legal fights, but as this week comes to an end, the president has suffered back-to-back setbacks in court.
On Friday morning, a federal judge blocked the administration from moving forward with its $1.776 billion compensation fund, which has been panned by members of both parties as a “slush fund,” and then on Friday afternoon, a different federal judge blocked a separate effort to add Trump’s name to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper said in a 94-page ruling, “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. Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.”
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Steve Benen is a producer for “The Rachel Maddow Show,” the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He’s also the bestselling author of “Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past.”
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