@washingtonpost Arts & Gov reporter covering Smithsonian, Kennedy Center, etc. @LivingstonAward finalist. Email: jonathan.edwards@washpost.com. Signal: jle.11
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Excited to announce I'm the new arts and government reporter at @washingtonpost covering the Smithsonian, Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, etc — and how the Trump administration is reshaping those institutions to rewrite the American story. Tips welcome: Signal jle.11
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The Kennedy Center’s name sign is still blocked by tarps and surrounded by security guards more than 12 hours after President Donald Trump’s name was removed from the building.
Just a handful of journalists and passersby waiting for the tarps to come down.
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President Donald Trump’s name is off the Kennedy Center.
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President Donald Trump’s name is now being taken off the Kennedy Center.
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The mood had pretty light over the past nine hours — until about 15 minutes ago when the crew brought out tarp. Mood changed immediately with boos and chants of “Shame!”
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Justice Department lawyers representing the Kennedy Center have just filed a motion for a 12-hour extension to remove Trump's name from the building. They said work "has been delayed because of thunderstorms ... presented safety concerns for workers."
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Beatty's lawyers said Trump and the Kennedy Center had two weeks to comply with the order to remove Trump's name and "only need an extension because of their inexcusable delay."
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The court-ordered deadline to remove President Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center has come and gone without workers having taken down any letters.
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It’s go time — less than an hour until the court-ordered deadline to take President Donald Trump’s name off the building.
Crews are almost finished with the scaffolding, but no letters have been touched let alone removed.
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About 150 people are waiting for a 14-member crew to build the scaffolding needed to remove the 18 offending letters.
The atmosphere is festival-like: People have brought their dogs, their partners and their kids. They oohed as lightning spidered across the sky and ahhed at a double rainbow. They cheered when a one-wheel rider zipped through the center's horseshoe driveway in a rainbow crop top and shorts, waving a bisexual pride flag. The Foo Fighters' "My Hero" blasted, followed by a request from a guy shouting to the workers above.
"Remove the 'T' first!"
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A 14-member crew just started offloading scaffolding after taking an extended break, presumably due to thunderstorms. When the workers started moving, the crowd of about 150 immediately broke out into chants of “Take it down! Take it down!”
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Workers are back at the scaffolding just minutes after appellate court denied Kennedy Center’s emergency motion to stay order to remove Trump’s name.
Crowd is chanting “Take it down! Take it down!
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Trump's name must come off the Kennedy Center — now, according to federal judge who rejected the center's eleventh-hour request to delay complying with his earlier ruling.
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At 3:48 p.m., Justice Department lawyers representing the center appealed Cooper’s denial, filing an emergency motion for a stay with the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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From about a half hour ago: Workers erected scaffolding on Friday near the Kennedy Center's exterior sign, hours before a deadline to remove President Donald Trump's name. (Alex Wroblewski, AFP/Getty Images)
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Breaking: A federal judge just denied the Kennedy Center's last-minute motion to delay removing President Donald Trump's name from the performing arts venue.
Story TK.
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The Washington National Opera is suing the Kennedy Center for $17 million, saying the center has "wrongfully held" years of donor gifts — and used some of the money to collateralize its own line of credit.
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The Kennedy Center will fight a federal judge's order to remove President Donald Trump's name from the building, voting to seek a last-minute stay a day before the court-ordered deadline
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Trump administration officials want two 10-hour crews working a total of 20 hours a day to finish President Donald Trump's 250-foot triumphal arch in two to three years, per National Park Service documents. From @ddiamond
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