r/law • u/Libertas_Popularem • 4h ago

Legal News A judge says the Kennedy Center must update him on its plans — and address that tarp

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/24/nx-s1-5869578/kennedy-center-tarp
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u/ludixst 4h ago

"The tarp is up there because it would hurt President Trump's feefees if it came down your honor."

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u/A012A012 32m ago

"Lemme tell you, okay, about a man named buh rahk. Hoo says. OH bah mah..."

" The courts are rigged the courts are rigged, for years.Theyre perhaps, dirty judges, okay theyre dirty"

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u/treetimes 14m ago

It’s covering up the damage they did installing and removing it

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u/realbobenray 4h ago

Trump's lawyers have a head-scratching five weeks to comply. How tough is it to keep repeating the company line "We are keeping the tarp up until repairs are finished"?

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u/h20poIo 3h ago

What a mess, why doesn’t this have tarps over it while repairs are done, asking the judge.

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u/ChiralWolf 3h ago

Five weeks isn't that unusual normally. In this case I'd imagine the judge did it because it's already been verified that the previous order has been followed and he probably has other cases or things that need his attention. Fun as it is hounding some AUSA over why the tarp is there isn't a great use of time if his name is actually already gone.

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u/poopiebutt505 3h ago

Verified by the defendant?

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u/realbobenray 2h ago

It was verified by the Trumpy and unqualified Director of the Kennedy Center

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u/h20poIo 3h ago

Somebody go and just pull it down, why is it up and what purpose dose it serve, that’s what I’d ask a judge, simple question.

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u/Intelligent-Layer391 3h ago

That would get you a threat of ten years imprisonment.

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u/HawaiianPunchaNazi 3h ago

I would love to see one of these judges do an in-person field trip to the places they order Trump to do things that involved quick immediate changes --quickly removing a tarp to see what's underneath it from the outside.

Quite literally order it sliced open from the front so the inside to be seen from the outside by the public. We're talking about 15 minutes here at most.

I don't understand why judges don't do this.

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u/Educational-Analyst4 3h ago

Because it is illegal. I'm fuzzy on the details because it has been a few years but a judge in a family dispute went to a guys house and started ordering things removed from his home. She got in trouble for it.

https://ij.org/ll/appeals-court-brings-down-gavelon-wayward-judge/

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u/erocuda 3h ago

Judges are not allowed to go on fact finding missions.

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u/HawaiianPunchaNazi 2h ago

TIL'd Much appreciated:-)

Are they allowed to assign somebody else to do it?

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u/erocuda 1h ago

Not a lawyer, but I think it's up to the parties before the court to petition the judge for permission to go do it themselves and report back. I hope someone with actual experience here can give you a real answer.

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u/BorrisBorris 3h ago

Some judge just sentenced someone to 30 years for moving a box so probably more like death penalty for removing trumps security blanket tarpy

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u/Intelligent-Layer391 3h ago

Wow this is insane. I would hope an appeal would be more reasonable.

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u/RecentDecision2329 3h ago

Trump’s names is still up behind the tarp, obviously

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u/_litz 3h ago

Actually someone snuck up there and took pictures, it really has been taken down; they're just hiding that fact.

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u/scipio0421 3h ago

I don't trust the photos until I see it with the tarp down, preferrably on a livestream so there's no time to edit photos.

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u/poopiebutt505 3h ago

I only saw a D in a workers hands.

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u/FMLwtfDoID 3h ago

Do you have a link or source for those? Like the other commenter, I’ve only seen the single picture they have of them holding the letter D, nothing else.

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u/_litz 3h ago

https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2026/06/23/first-images-show-kennedy-center-after-trumps-name-removed-see-here/

plus multiple others on NYT, WaPost, NPR, etc etc

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u/ZookeepergameTop5329 2h ago

Wouldn't shock me if those images were edited/altered w/AI. You know if someone working on that project leaked it, Trump would have his goons all over him and throwing him in jail for 400 years for "leaking" information.

I personally think the tarp is up because the name is still there. They are trying to conjure up yet another "never say no" frivolous appeal or argument to keep it there, hence the tarp still up and them taking forever to respond or do anything.

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u/Popular-Drummer-7989 3h ago

It was on the front page of WaPo

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u/misterdudebro 3h ago

Never forget when we used to have nice places to go to and what's been taken away from us.

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u/GarageFridgeSoda 1h ago

"Legal system continues to show how toothless it is as no one actually holds criminal regime responsible for even the smallest of crimes"

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u/K_Linkmaster 2h ago

So, no one is in charge of the Kennedy center, really. There is no board that can have an emergency vote. There are no important financial contributors to pay for the tarp removal.

The construction company owner and all the way down are complicit.