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A federal judge is demanding an explanation for the tarp that now hides where President Donald Trump’s name once stood on the Kennedy Center’s fa\u00e7ade.<\/p>\n

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U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper issued the order Tuesday in Beatty v. Trump<\/em>, the lawsuit brought by Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) over Trump’s illegal renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Cooper ordered the parties to file a joint status report addressing “the purpose for and status of the tarp and scaffolding that Defendants have erected on the front portico of the Center.”<\/p>\n

Workers put up the tarp on June 13 \u2014 the night Trump’s name came down under Cooper’s court order. It has not come down since.<\/p>\n

The Kennedy Center says the covering is needed for marble maintenance. Beatty’s lawyers aren’t buying it.<\/p>\n

“Willfully sabotaging Kennedy Center’s iconic fa\u00e7ade to assuage Defendants’ vanity or massage broken egos is a clear breach of fiduciary duty,” her attorneys wrote.<\/p>\n

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Mallory Miller co-founded the activist group Hands Off the Arts and got behind the tarp to photograph the fa\u00e7ade. She told NBC News the administration’s motive was plain.<\/p>\n

“The Trump administration does not want to see that building without Trump’s name on the fa\u00e7ade before they could go through all their appeals,” Miller said.<\/p>\n

Beatty’s attorney, Nathaniel Zelinsky, was more direct. “It certainly seems like an attempt to hide embarrassment on Donald Trump’s part,” he told The Washingtonian.<\/p>\n

Cooper’s order also rejected the administration’s bid to delay answering Beatty’s lawsuit while an appeal plays out. In a sworn court declaration, Kennedy Center Executive Director Matt Floca said the center has halted steps toward a full closure and will stay open past July 5. Cooper accepted that for now, but warned Beatty can return to court if the promise falls apart.<\/p>\n

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Defendants must answer Beatty’s complaint in full by June 29.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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