U.S. appeals court rejects last-minute bid to delay removing Trump’s name from Kennedy Center

WASHINGTON, June 13 — A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday denied the Justice Department’s last-minute request for a temporary pause of a court order directing that President Donald Trump’s name be removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Earlier in the day, the Trump administration and the Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Center each appealed a federal district judge’s ruling ordering the removal. Under the order, Trump’s name must be removed from the building by Friday midnight.

By Friday afternoon, construction crews had cordoned off the section of the Kennedy Center bearing Trump’s name and begun erecting scaffolding for its removal.