A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts could not inscribe “renovated and restored by President Donald J. Trump” on the venue’s facade, dealing another setback to the Trump-appointed Kennedy Center’s months-long campaign to memorialize the president somewhere on the institution’s premises.
US District Judge Christopher R. Cooper, who has presided over several legal challenges brought by Trump over the issue, wrote that any such change to the Kennedy Center would violate his earlier ruling, which held that his name was illegally inscribed on the building last December.
