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雅各布·罗森 司法部记者
杰克·罗森是负责报道司法部的记者。此前他曾担任竞选数字记者，报道特朗普总统2024年竞选活动，还曾担任《玛格丽特·布伦南面对全国》节目的助理制片人。
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华盛顿 — 一名联邦法官周四就约翰·F·肯尼迪表演艺术中心董事会将特朗普总统姓名重新标识在建筑外立面的新举措，向俄亥俄州民主党众议员乔伊斯·贝蒂和司法部的律师提出质询。
贝蒂去年曾就特朗普对肯尼迪中心的改动提起诉讼，其代理律师认为，董事会近期的标识行为违反联邦法律，并请求美国地区法官克里斯托弗·库珀发布紧急禁令阻止该改动。
库珀迅速召开听证会审议贝蒂的请求，但未当场作出裁决。肯尼迪中心董事会已同意在9月8日前不采取任何行动，不过法官很快向司法部律师布兰特利·迈尔斯质询，为何必须如此仓促推进。
“这与国会的初衷有什么关系？”库珀就临近的截止日期提问道。
该董事会由特朗普担任主席，成员包括其内阁成员和盟友，本月早些时候通过一项决议，提议在建筑中心名称下方添加“唐纳德·J·特朗普总统翻新修复”字样，并在筹集到1亿美元资金后，追加标识“特朗普肯尼迪中心基金捐赠”。决议还提议将肯尼迪中心的场地命名为“唐纳德·J·特朗普总统广场”。
代表贝蒂的律师纳撒尼尔·泽林斯基称，董事会再次将特朗普姓名标识在中心的行为“似曾相识”，是公然违抗库珀今年早些时候下达的禁令，该禁令禁止关闭肯尼迪中心，并要求移除建筑上的特朗普姓名。
“他们正在做之前被告知不能做的事情，”泽林斯基说，称董事会本月的举动是“试图绕过你的禁令”。
董事会去年晚些时候投票决定将肯尼迪中心更名为“唐纳德·J·特朗普与约翰·F·肯尼迪纪念表演艺术中心”，随后不久便将总统姓名添加到建筑上。但在库珀作出裁决后，施工人员于6月移除了外立面的总统姓名。自那以来，建筑的前门廊一直被施工 tarp 覆盖，遮挡了大部分名称标识。
泽林斯基曾表示，新标识的安装对建筑大理石造成了损坏。
但负责副司法部长事务的律师迈尔斯告诉库珀，肯尼迪中心正处于“结构和财务混乱状态”，这与周二提交的文件中的说法一致。在法庭文件中，司法部警告称，如果该艺术表演机构无法关闭两年进行翻新，可能会被拆除。
“这里根本不涉及更名，”迈尔斯在法庭上多次辩称。他表示，肯尼迪中心董事会提议将特朗普姓名标识在建筑外立面和广场，是因为特朗普总统正在为补充国会拨付的中心资金开展持续的和未来的筹款活动。
“特朗普总统是一位成功的筹款人，”迈尔斯说。
司法部在提交的文件中辩称，该中心“危险破旧、过时且年久失修”，数百万美元的财务损失将这座纪念约翰·F·肯尼迪总统的活态纪念馆推向“财务和结构的死亡螺旋”，必须关闭进行翻新。
“如果不采取这些措施，该中心将进一步恶化成为不安全、破旧的建筑，将不得不被拆除，之后将决定在原址建造什么，比如多年来一些人提议的俯瞰波托马克河的大型露天圆形剧场，”联邦政府的律师写道。
但库珀告诉迈尔斯，有关肯尼迪中心物理状态的说法是“不相关的题外话”，因为他的任务是判定董事会将特朗普姓名重新标识在建筑上的行为是否符合联邦法律。
不过，他也向双方律师质询，自己是否仍对该案拥有管辖权，因为特朗普政府已就他此前支持贝蒂的裁决提起上诉。
库珀此前曾裁定：“国会赋予肯尼迪中心其名称，只有国会才能更改它。”他当时写道，除肯尼迪外，没有其他个人可以在该中心的前门廊被纪念。
目前没有官方计划拆除这座已有近55年历史的表演艺术中心。但这一警告可能会升级围绕该中心长达数月的法律争端，特朗普及其亲手挑选的董事会一直寻求对其进行全面改革。
贝蒂在法庭上坐在其法律团队旁边。库珀就座后，开玩笑对这位女议员说，这场持续的法律斗争“可能比你提起诉讼时预想的要多”，引得法庭内一片笑声。
听证会开始前，商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克表示，他“不知道”特朗普政府是否拥有拆除该中心的合法权限，并称将特朗普姓名添加到中心园区的部分区域是“正确的做法”。
“我想不通的是，我们为什么会出现在这个法庭上，”卢特尼克说。
这位部长全程留在法庭内，并在庭审短暂休庭期间与司法部律师进行了交谈。
卢特尼克并非肯尼迪中心董事会成员，但他的妻子艾莉森是董事会成员。
Judge considers Kennedy Center board’s push to put Trump’s name back on building
August 27, 2026 / 5:28 PM EDT / CBS News
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Jacob Rosen Justice Department Reporter
Jake Rosen is a reporter covering the Department of Justice. He was previously a campaign digital reporter covering President Trump’s 2024 campaign and also served as an associate producer for “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”
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Washington — A federal judge on Thursday pressed lawyers for Ohio Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty and the Justice Department on new efforts by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Board of Trustees to add President Trump’s name back onto the building’s facade.
Lawyers for Beatty, who sued last year over Mr. Trump’s changes to the Kennedy Center, argue that the board’s recent efforts to recognize the president violate federal law, and they asked U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper to issue emergency relief blocking the changes.
Cooper quickly convened a hearing to consider Beatty’s request but did not issue a decision. The Kennedy Center’s board has agreed not to take any action until Sept. 8, though the judge swiftly questioned Brantley Mayers, a Justice Department lawyer, as to why it had to move so soon.
“What does that have to do with what Congress intended?” Cooper asked of the fast-approaching deadline.
The board, which is chaired by Mr. Trump and composed of his Cabinet members and allies, approved a resolution earlier this month that calls for the inscription “Renovated and Restored by President Donald J. Trump” to be placed under the center’s name on the building and for the inscription “Endowed by the Trump Kennedy Center Fund” to be added if a $100 million fundraising threshold is met. The resolution also calls for the Kennedy Center’s grounds to be named the “President Donald J. Trump Plaza.”
Nathaniel Zelinsky, a lawyer representing Beatty, called the board’s vote to again put Mr. Trump’s name on the center “deja vu” and an act of “outright defiance” of an order from Cooper earlier this year that barred the center’s closure and ordered Mr. Trump’s name to be removed from the building.
“They are doing the same thing they were told they couldn’t do before,” Zelinsky said, calling the board’s move this month an “attempt to end-run your order.”
The board voted late last year to rename the Kennedy Center to “The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts,” and the president’s name was added to the building soon after. But construction crews removed the president’s name from the facade in June after Cooper’s ruling. Since then, the front portico of the building has been covered by a construction tarp, concealing most of its name.
Zelinsky has said that the marble on the building was damaged as a result of the new inscription.
But Mayers, counsel to the associate attorney general, told Cooper that the Kennedy Center is in “structural and financial disarray,” echoing assertions made in a filing Tuesday. In court papers, the Justice Department warned the performing arts institution may have to be demolished if it cannot be closed for two years for renovations.
“There is no renaming here,” Mayers repeatedly argued in court. He said the Kennedy Center board moved to inscribe Mr. Trump’s name in the facade and plaza because of ongoing and future fundraising efforts by the president to supplement congressional funds for the center.
“President Trump is a successful fundraiser,” Mayers said.
The Justice Department had argued in filings that the center’s “dangerously dilapidated, outdated, and decrepit” conditions and millions of dollars in financial losses put the living memorial to President John F. Kennedy in a “financial and structural death spiral” that will require it to close for renovations.
“Without those efforts, the Center will deteriorate further into an unsafe, decrepit structure that will be required to be taken down, with a determination to follow on what to build on the site, such as a large outdoor amphitheater overlooking the Potomac River that has been proposed, by some, for many years,” lawyers for the federal government wrote.
But Cooper told Mayers that the claims about the physical state of the Kennedy Center were a “nonsequitur,” since he is tasked with deciding whether the board’s attempt to put Mr. Trump’s name back on the building complies with federal law.
Still, he also questioned lawyers for both sides on whether he still has jurisdiction over the case, since the Trump administration appealed his earlier decision in favor of Beatty.
Cooper had previously ruled that “Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.” He wrote then that no other individual other than Kennedy can be memorialized on the center’s front portico.
There are no official existing plans to tear down the almost 55-year-old performing arts center. But the warning could raise the stakes in a monthslong legal dispute over the center, which Mr. Trump and his handpicked board of trustees have sought to overhaul.
Beatty was seated next to her legal team in the courtroom. When he took the bench, Cooper joked to the congresswoman that the ongoing legal battle “may have been more than you bargained for when you joined this suit,” prompting laughter from the courtroom.
Ahead of the hearing, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said he had “no idea” whether the Trump administration has the legal authority to tear down the center, and called adding Mr. Trump’s name to parts of the center’s campus “the right thing to do.”
“What I can’t figure out is why we’re in this courtroom,” Lutnick said.
The secretary remained in the courtroom for the entire hearing and spoke with Justice Department attorneys during a brief break in the proceedings.
Lutnick is not a member of the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees, but his wife, Allison, is.
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