November 03, 2026
A federal judge Tuesday said he was not inclined to rule just yet on a motion to compel documents and other discovery material related to the closure and attempted renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, citing an impending briefing from the government due Friday.
September 15, 2026
A D.C. federal judge rejected the Kennedy Center's latest effort to put President Donald Trump's name on the building's facade Tuesday, saying yet again that the performing arts center's board can't memorialize anyone but John F. Kennedy at the facility without Congress' say-so.
September 14, 2026
The board of trustees of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts intends to vote Tuesday on a pair of resolutions that say the facility is facing bankruptcy "within weeks" without fundraising efforts from President Donald J. Trump, which the documents say would probably only come if the center reapplies his name to the building.
May 29, 2026
A D.C. federal judge blocked the closure and purported renaming of the Kennedy Center on Friday, ordering President Donald Trump's name removed from the building's facade and ruling that the board of the iconic performing arts hub violated its statutory duty when it failed to fully assess the closure's impacts.
April 28, 2026
A D.C. federal judge appeared uninterested in having to "micromanage" the Kennedy Center's renovation projects from the bench, but also suggested that conflicting accounts of the actual scale of the proposed work at the performing arts center could pose a problem for the Trump administration's plans to close the facility for renovations.