JONATHAN TURLEY: Trump’s Kennedy Center name change will keep lawyers busy for years
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Trump administration renames Kennedy Center, but federal law may prohibit additional memorials according to legal experts and pending lawsuit.
In any legal challenge, the advantage would likely rest with the challengers if they can meet the standing requirements. Jonathan Turley is a Fox News Media contributor and the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of "The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage" (Simon & Schuster, June 18, 2024).
As a threshold matter, I will address the legal rather than policy basis for the change. Many of us chafed at the renaming of the center, which was a memorial to an assassinated president. However, what people want to know is whether the change can be challenged. The answer is yes, but it will not necessarily be easy or certain in its outcome.
The center was originally built as the National Cultural Center in a 1958 law. It was renamed the John F. Kennedy Center by an act of Congress in 1964 as a living memorial.
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