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A slew of documents related to President Donald Trump’s efforts to close and extensively renovate the Kennedy Center must be turned over to a Democratic congresswoman who sits on the center’s board ahead of a Monday vote on the president’s plan, a federal judge has ruled.

A slew of documents related to Donald Trump’s efforts to close and extensively renovate the Kennedy Center must be turned over to a Democratic congresswoman who sits on the center’s board ahead of a Monday vote on the president’s plan, a federal judge has ruled.

US District Judge Christopher Cooper said in a lengthy decision Saturday that Ohio Rep. Joyce Beatty has a right to the information so she can meaningfully participate in the upcoming White House meeting, during which the storied performing arts center is poised to approve the plan by Trump, who last year installed himself as its chair.

“A project of this salience and magnitude — which threatens to involve at least some demolition and reconstruction of a major national memorial and active performing arts theater — does not happen overnight,” Cooper wrote. “If it is the case that many external advisors and Board members have been consulted, the financing is set, and already-made decisions are currently being implemented on-site, there must be some concrete information to share with the full Board, including Beatty.”

    • aramis87@fedia.io
      3·
      2 days ago

      The way they pushed through the “renovation” (aka destruction) plans was by secretly voting beforehand that anyone who was non-Trumpian wasn’t allowed to vote (that’s why they were all muted on the call). I fully expect this to go a similar way: she’ll get access to the plans, but not be allowed to vote. Or perhaps she’ll be the only non-Trumpian allowed to vote.

  • orlyowl@piefed.caEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    I hope every fucking thing he’s stamped his name on gets reversed within days of when he’s out of office.

      • Soulphite@reddthat.com
        5·
        2 days ago

        I’d invite Canada on down to burn it down for all the bullshit the piece of crap put them through during his term and to make the old myth true in modern time. Consider it an olive branch, you know the one the dumbfucks are removing from the dime?