Judges reject Kennedy Center effort to reinstate Trump's name [View all]
Source: msn.com
Story by Ted Johnson • 38m •
A federal appeals court has rejected the Kennedy Center board’s latest argument for why Donald Trump’s name needs to be added to the complex.
A three-judge panel on Wednesday denied a stay of a lower court order that forced the Kennedy Center to remove Trump’s name, including from the facade of the front of the arts institution. A tarp has covered the name since then, which otherwise would read visibly, “The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.”
Justice Department attorneys had argued that many “donors and companies, who have given, or will be giving, millions of dollars to the Center were only willing to do so with the name ‘Trump’ on the Building.” They noted that a new entity, the Trump Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Foundation, hinged on having Trump’s name on the facade and that, according to the foundation bylaws, the funds would have to be returned.
“A stay should therefore be issued to protect the center from financial ruin,” the DOJ attorneys wrote.
But appellate judges wrote that the Kennedy Center board “have failed to support this assertion with any specific facts or evidence. They offer only the conclusory assertions of the Kennedy Center's Executive Director that were made in a factually unsupported declaration.”........
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Judges reject Kennedy Center effort to reinstate Trump's name
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A three-judge panel on Wednesday denied a stay of a lower court order that forced the Kennedy Center to remove Trump’s name, including from the facade of the front of the arts institution
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