A Democratic member of the House on Monday challenged in federal court the administration’s effort to rename the Kennedy Center after President Donald Trump.
Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging that the center’s board stepped outside the law when it attempted to rename the institution as the “Trump Kennedy Center” last week. The complaint asked a judge to set aside the name change and order the administration to undo signage and other changes.
Last week the board of the Kennedy Center, which Trump chairs, purported to rename the building after Trump despite a federal law setting its name as the “John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.”
