Marking the late president’s 109th birthday, John F. Kennedy‘s household is celebrating a choose’s current resolution to protect his namesake memorial performing arts constructing.
Following a federal choose’s order on Friday to take away Donald Trump’s title from the Kennedy Heart and block a two-year renovation, JFK’s niece Maria Shriver praised the “nice birthday reward” for the thirty fifth president of america.
“An acceptable birthday current on my uncle’s birthday as we speak,” wrote Shriver on X. “A federal choose dominated that President Trump and the Kennedy Heart Board acted unlawfully in renaming the Kennedy Heart. The choose held that solely Congress can change the Heart’s title and blocked the deliberate two-year closure. I do know they’ll in all probability enchantment and the story isn’t over, however for as we speak let’s rejoice an excellent birthday reward.”
On Friday, U.S. District Decide Christopher Cooper dominated that the board of the Kennedy Heart unlawfully added Trump’s title to the venue, which solely Congress is permitted to do.
“Congress gave the Kennedy Heart its title, and solely Congress can change it,” wrote Decide Cooper, ordering inside 14 days, the president’s title be faraway from the facade and different areas, together with digital signage and official supplies.
Predictably, Trump lashed out on the ruling on Reality Social, claiming “the Radical Left would moderately see [the center] DIE than have President Trump rework it into one thing that everybody may very well be pleased with,” he wrote partly.
The Kennedy Heart board voted so as to add Trump’s title to the constructing in December, leading to an exodus of scheduled artists. In March, the board accepted plans to shut the middle for intensive renovations.