1 of 2 | Tarps remain at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on June 20, a week after a court ordered the removal of Donald Trump's name from the building in Washington, D.C. A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the center's board to provide an explanation for the tarps and scaffolding. Photo by Pat Benic/UPI | License Photo
June 24 (UPI) -- A federal judge asked Kennedy Center officials and the Trump administration on Wednesday for an explanation for the tarps and scaffolding that still cover part of the front of the building.
The coverings remain more than a week after workers removed President Donald Trump's name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts during an overnight operation June 13, just before the deadline. In May, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper had ordered the name removed from the center, ruling that the board acted illegally in renaming it without congressional approval.
Cooper on Wednesday ordered the center's board of trustees to report "the process for and the status of the tarp and scaffolding that defendants have erected on the front portico of the center, to the extent they remain at that time."
Those items, as of Wednesday, still covered parts of the building's front and name, including the spots where Trump's name was removed. Barricades and security guards keep people from approaching, The Washington Post reported.
