Judge Orders Trump Admin To Explain Reason For Tarp At Kennedy Center (opens in new tab)

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 façade. U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper issued the order Tuesday in Beatty v. Trump, 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 th...