The Trump administration filed an appeal on Thursday challenging a judge’s order that the president’s name must be removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and that the center can’t be closed for two years for renovations.
The appeal was filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
On May 29, a federal district judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s name be removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and blocked officials from closing it for two years to make renovations.
Judge Christopher R. Cooper issued the order ruling that the center’s statute requires it to be named for Kennedy and cannot be altered unilaterally by the board….