WOOT!! KENNEDY CENTER ATTORNEYS DIRECT STAFF TO 86 TRUMP’S NAME – I HAVE THE *ACTUAL* DOCUMENT FOR YOU!
by Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. – zero hyperbole and 100% facts in plain English about what’s going on with this administration and the law
Last week I reported on the Court’s ordering the Kennedy Center to remove Trump’s name, and to not close the Kennedy Center during renovations based on the March vote.
Now the Kennedy Center General Counsel has issued a memo requiring Kennedy Center staff to make it so. And not just to make it so, but to make it so in short order, by Friday, June 12th.
This is of course the deadline that the Court gave them, but it is still significant that the Kennedy Center’s General Counsel has issued this memo making it so. (Yes, yes, I am a Trekkie, and yes, yes, even TNG although I’ll fight to the death defending TOS.)
The memo (full 3-page memo included for Notes from the Front members), instructs that “To comply with this order, you must immediately change email signatures, letterhead, and other documents to reflect the name as “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,” or “Kennedy Center.” Other changes, such as to templates and forms, signage, brochures, and website pages, must be completed no later than Friday, June 12, 2026.”
Of course it says a lot more, including addressing the renovation, and what the Court did and did not say (nice weasel words in that section).
But what may be the coolest part of the memo, other than, you know, all of it, is the table of responsible parties, responsibilities, and time frame, which includes entries like this:
Marketing: website: immediately
and
National Symphony Orchestra: NSO templates, agreements,
forms & policies: immediately
and
Safety & Security: Issue new ID cards: By 6-12-26
And on and on for *20* different responsible parts of the organization, for what they are responsible, and by when. (Ok, I at least think that’s really interesting, but I’m weird like that.)
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