{"id":623777,"date":"2026-06-23T17:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=623777"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:12:22","slug":"house-democrat-sues-over-kennedy-center-tarp-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=623777","title":{"rendered":"House Democrat sues over Kennedy Center tarp"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, is so upset at the tarp in front of the Kennedy Center that she filed a motion for its removal.<\/p>\n

She calls the tarp a \u201cpetty act of defiance\u201d from the Trump administration after the president was ordered by a court to remove his name from the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts building. Beatty, a Kennedy Center board member, objected to renaming<\/a> it to include President Donald Trump by arguing that such a change would require an act of Congress \u201c[b]ecause Congress named the center by statute.\u201d<\/p>\n

Workers involved in the removal of the lettering, which was ordered last month by Obama appointee Judge Christopher Cooper, are accused of moving slowly, causing critics to wonder if they were told to do so in order to create delays and give the administration more time to fight the ruling.<\/p>\n

The motion slams Trump\u2019s reported plan to close the center for two years as a \u201cplan to turn the Kennedy Center into a lifeless husk by refusing to take any steps to maintain the Center\u2019s operations,\u201d that \u201cwill effectively close the Center as a performing arts venue come July 5, 2026\u2014contrary to the Court\u2019s preliminary injunction order.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also questioned whether the administration is planning to comply with the removal order.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaintiff brings to the Court\u2019s attention two pertinent developments regarding the Court\u2019s summary judgment order, which raise serious concerns regarding compliance with that order as well,\u201d the motion reads. \u201cStarting over the weekend, Plaintiff repeatedly requested clarity from Defendants on these developments, to no avail. Plaintiff also specifically requested that Defendants provide information as to these developments in this status report. Instead, to date, Defendants have refused to provide any explanation whatsoever, despite Plaintiff stressing the seriousness of the matter and despite Defendants speaking to the press as described below. Given Defendants\u2019 refusal to respond, and the gravity of Plaintiff\u2019s concerns (which are compounded by Defendants\u2019 deliberate non-compliance with the preliminary injunction order), Plaintiff requests the Court order them to explain their actions in a sworn declaration.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tarp, which blocks Trump\u2019s name from being visible on the front of the building, is not acceptable not Beatty\u2019s lawyers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis latest development is a transparent effort to frustrate a return to the status quo that existed prior to the Board\u2019s unlawful vote to rename the Kennedy Center on December 18, 2025,\u201d the motion argues.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndeed, it appears that the tarp will be there for the long term,\u201d it continues, pointing out that the workers \u201cfashioned two doorways in the structure to permit pedestrian access underneath the structure, and the entire assemblage appears to be semi-permanent.\u201d They also noted that it \u201clargely obscures John F. Kennedy\u2019s name on the front portico.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, is so upset at the tarp in front of the Kennedy Center that she filed a motion for its removal. She calls the tarp a \u201cpetty act of defiance\u201d from the Trump administration after the president was ordered by a court to remove his name from the John F. Kennedy Memorial… Continue reading House Democrat sues over Kennedy Center tarp<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":623765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/623765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}