Ohio Democratic representative Joy Beatty sued Trump’s board in December over a name change, loss of ex officio voting rights, and a planned two-year closure for renovations. Judge Christopher Cooper ordered the building remove Trump’s name from the façade, citing the Kennedy Center’s organic statute requiring naming for President Kennedy and stating only Congress can change it. Cooper also restored Beatty’s voting rights, ruling the statute makes no distinction between general and ex officio trustees for fundamental rights. Cooper granted a temporary injunction against the two-year closure, finding the board relied on an insufficient, one-sided information presentation and failed to consider statutory obligations and adverse consequences for programming and memorial functions.
"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 ruled that the board based the decision to close "on an insufficient, one-sided presentation of information and neglected to consider the full range of its statutory obligations and potential adverse consequences of closure on programming and memorial functions.""
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