May 30, 2026
Trump Off!
Timothy Birdnow
Robert Byrd's name is all over everything in West Virginia and was while he was a sitting Senator. Will this judge order Byrd's name be expunged?
I would like to know how this case even was heard. It should have been dismissed for lack of standing by the Democrat who brought it.
The judge also ordered the center not be closed for two years for maintenance.
The suit was brought by a Democrat Congresscritter, not by the board of directors of the center, who are the ones who are responsible for naming the center and for maintenance.
The article gives us the judge's reasoning:
"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,” Cooper said.
Congress organized the center as a "bureau” within the Smithsonian Institution directed by a board of trustees, he said.
The board was given several duties, including "programming obligations,” "memorial obligations” honoring the legacy of Kennedy, and general maintenance obligations, the judge said.
To satisfy these obligations, Congress "empowered the Board to do the kinds of things that boards typically do: negotiate contracts, prepare budgets, employ personnel, solicit and accept gifts, transfer property, bargain with employees, procure insurance, and issue annual reports.”
The lawsuit’s claim that the center’s board violated its fiduciary duty in voting to close the center was "likely to succeed,” the judge said.
A fiduciary duty is a duty of loyalty, care, and good faith that one party owes to another in positions of trust.
Isn't it a fiduciary duty to see to it the center is safe and does not become run down?
And while I do not have the actual statute that created the center I rather doubt that it specifically said the center could not be formally renamed, especially if Kennedy's name remains a part of the new name.
No, I think this guy is just writing his own law just to piss down Trump's back.
This is how it is with the Left; they fight every single battle, no matter how relatively unimportant. They can never let the other side ever have a win.
I wonder who paid for this lawsuit by the Democrats? You and me, probably.
The judge said the injunction will not prevent the center from proceeding with capital repair work it has planned and that is "sorely needed.” Nor will it stop the board from closing the center "should it come to this decision anew after independently balancing its multiple obligations to the Center in a prudent fashion.”
"Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it,” the judge said.
The new ruling came in response to litigation initiated in December 2025 by Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) who sued Trump and the Kennedy Center board of trustees over its renaming as the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Beatty is an ex officio member of the center’s board of trustees.
Uh, the board of directors made a prudent decision to close the center and this judge overruled them. He now says they can close the center but it must be a prudent decision aka he is the one who will make it.
And again I rather doubt only Congress can change the name.
The Left wants Trump's name to be anathema a curse to be muttered darkly, like voldamort in the Harry Potter books "he who shall not be named".
Now I think it ridiculous Trump wanted to put his name on the center, but I know why he did it; the center had become a stain on the American arts community and Trump was thumbing the stuffed shirted leftists in the eye by despoiling their pet institution. But churlishness aside, I don't think the naming of the center - nor the renovation thereof - is any of this damned judge's business.
At any rate this is a prime example of judicial overreach. Until we rein in the judiciary the Left will continue to hold the line, and will win when they get power.
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