Posted on 12/23/2025 10:40:24 AM PST by DFG
House Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty sued President Donald Trump on Monday -- hoping to force the removal of his name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The lawsuit from the congresswoman, who serves an ex-officio member of the board, argues that the board’s vote to rename the building was illegal because an act of Congress is required for such an action.
"This is a flagrant violation of the rule of law, and it flies in the face of our constitutional order. Congress intended the Center to be a living memorial to President Kennedy -- and a crown jewel of the arts for all Americans, irrespective of party. Unless and until this Court intervenes, Defendants will continue to defy Congress and thwart the law for improper ends," the lawsuit states.
ABC News has reached out to the White House for comment on the lawsuit.
The White House announced last week that the board at the Kennedy Center, which Trump now chairs and is filled with his appointees, voted "unanimously" to rename the building the "Trump-Kennedy Center" -- with workers adding Trump’s name to the facade of the building the next day.
Beatty, however, said she was muted on the call during the vote and could not voice her opposition to the name change.
Beatty told reporters last week that she tried to speak up to oppose the name change.
"I said, 'I have something to say,' and I was muted, and as I continued to try to unmute, to ask questions and voice my opposition to this, I received a note saying that I would not be unmuted," Beatty said to reporters. "I was not allowed to vote because I was muted. I would not have supported this."
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You lost honey, get used to it.
Is she using her own money for this frivolous suit or yours?
no standing
Now that’s what I call working on behalf of your constituents!
What a waste of time and energy...
Fish On!
You mean the John F. Kennedy that the Deep State murdered?
That President Kennedy?
So, you don't want the name of the president that is working to bring the truth of President Kennedy's murder by the Deep State to light on a memorial to that president?
Since you're a honorable member of Congress, Okay.
Two matched piles of dogsqueeze.
What the heck? Did handjive Hakeem smack her in the eye with one of his gesticulations?
Lack of standing. Ex oficio means, in common terms: you have no authority.
I had the same question. Lawsuits aren’t free - who pays for all this frivilous BS?
(I think we know)
Shouldnt she be suing the Board?
Their decision.
Not unusual to bestow an honorific naming of a cultural site when an individual ( Trump) spearheads over $130 million in donor fundraising plus obtains a $257 million federal grant for repairs and renovations….in the first 10 months of his Presidency.
And while the outrage of the week over the new Trump Kennedy Center, Trump will blow up some more drug boats and deport another 10,000 illegal alien trash.
It would be more instructive for ABC News to explain its reaction to the lawsuit.
TDS Alert!
A likely story.
I’ll bet the original enabling legislation used to fund the building didn’t even name it. Some bureaucrats did.
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