In her order, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “unlawfully usurped the authority” of FEMA “to make its own personnel decisions.”
At a hearing Thursday in Federal District Court in Washington, Judge Cooper told Justice Department lawyers that he will have to issue a ruling blocking the center from moving forward unless the center delays adding the inscription.
A federal judge on Thursday sharply questioned the Kennedy Center’s plans to add President Donald Trump’s name back to its building in coming weeks and expressed frustration that it could happen before he decides whether the move is legal. During a nearly two hour hearing before Judge Christopher Cooper, who previously concluded that the center’s board broke the law when it voted to rename the historic performing arts venue in honor of Trump, the judge asked pointed questions to a Justice Department attorney defending the board’s decision earlier this month to again add the current president’s name alongside that of the 35th president on the building’s facade and on other areas of the site the building sits on. Watch 24/7 live…
Rep. Joyce Beatty has asked a federal court to block the Kennedy Center from adding President Donald Trump’s name to the building.
The center said in a status report that it would not carry out the plans to add the president's name before Sept. 8.
A new filing in the Kennedy Center lawsuit offers new details on the vote to close the center and add President Donald Trump’s name back onto the front of the building.
A federal appeals court struck down the higher education restrictions of Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act” that restricts critical race theory (CRT) indoctrination in the state’s […] Source
A judge has ruled that President Trump's clemency grant for those charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack does not apply to the man charged with planting pipe bombs in D.C.