Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The addition of President Donald Trump's name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the capital was done illegally, Rep. Joyce Beatty said in a lawsuit.
Beatty, D-Ohio, is the lone plaintiff in the lawsuit filed on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and names Trump as the lead defendant, along with dozens of others.
Beatty says Congress is the only body that can change the name of the Kennedy Center, which on Friday had the president's name added to read: "Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts."
Beatty also is an ex-officio member of the Kennedy Center's board of directors and said the board's recent vote to add Trump's name to the building requires an act of Congress to make it official, ABC News reported.
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