Christopher R. Cooper

Trump is making an unprecedented attempt to revive three shuttered nuclear plants to meet rising energy demand, including from large-scale data centers.

And a federal judge tossed ex-CIA head John Brennan's document preservation lawsuit against the Justice Department as being speculative.

Okay, I guess that's disregarding all the facts that have happened before.

But, you know, that's how the Nazis do it.

Beatty argues that executive privilege protects the institution of the presidency, not the individual who happens to occupy the White House.

But as the Supreme Court reinforced recently, the framers vested the executive power in one person, a president of the United States of America.

The federal judge presiding over the case, Christopher Cooper, has not yet weighed in on the issue.

But the administration's stance conflicts with a ruling issued this month allowing Beatty's team to learn more about the circumstances surrounding a photo of Trump on Air Force One viewing a poster that read Kennedy Center Demolish.

The court is expected to hear arguments in the case and issue a ruling by the end of June." So we got like eight months, basically.

Uh, "Washington-based District Judge Christopher Cooper in April of 2025 ordered the disclosures, finding that DOGE likely is a government agency covered by Federal Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA.

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit refused to halt the judge's orders." Like, why are we even having this conversation? We're taking this...

This has to go to the Supreme Court, really? A- America, wake up.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to make public a presentation used by Kennedy Center officials as they considered closing the building for two years while allowing the government, Trump and company, to propose limited redactions to a separate office 163-page renovation plan.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ordered the Delta Construction Group PowerPoint unsealed in full and said the administration must propose narrowly tailored redactions to the so-called JLL plan.

That's the 163-page plan that Donald Trump assures us for fully supports his decision to close the Kennedy Center, but nobody can see it.

That was my editorial edition there.

So this is, this, this 160-page document is a comprehensive project development plan for the Kennedy Center renovation, and the fight is basically over the secrecy of these matters and the decision-making to close it, uh, that the Trump, this Trump, uh, installed board basically saying they relied on, on this document to decide to close for two years.

And this is before Judge Christopher Cooper.

Uh, and this is a litigation brought by Representative Joyce Beatty, who is an ex officio of the Kennedy Center and, and a trustee.

And Cooper had previously, Judge Cooper had previously blocked the board's first closure decision, describing the process as, quote, "ill-informed and seemingly preordained," [laughs] which-

Because I just add another one.

All right, ready? In alphabetical order by first name, Allison Burroughs, Ana Reyes, Beryl Howe, the new addition, Brian Murphy, Cameron McGowan-Curry, Christopher Cooper.

Just added Beryl Howe this morning.

She's such a dingbat.

Over the summer, for example, the justices handed Trump defeats on two cherished priorities, imposing global tariffs and resetting the rules for mail-in voting.

A lower court judge blocked Trump's appointees on the board of the Kennedy Center from putting his name on it, which he appears to care about even more.

The judge in the Kennedy Center case, Christopher Cooper, underscored in his ruling what power Congress has.

Simply put, he wrote, the board cannot install memorials for President Trump or anyone or anything else at the Kennedy Center without Congress's blessing.

yet Republicans have not moved a bill to authorize adding Trump's name.

Are the conservative justices frustrating Congress in service of a regressive agenda? Bowie and Renan think so.

Quote, only legislation, creative new national laws, can begin to address the many profound challenges facing the United States, they write.

In a constitutional democracy, judges are supposed to preserve the rule of law by preventing the other branches from acting illegally.

A federal judge has twice said that can't happen without the approval of Congress.

"Simply put, defendants cannot install memor- memorials for President Trump or anyone or anything else at the Kennedy Center without Congress's blessing," U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said in the latest ruling Tuesday.

The Justice Department appealed the ruling, and Trump, who was named the Kennedy Center's chairman last year by a loyalist of the board, particip- participated in a vi- a virtual board meeting and said on social media he'd given seventeen million to be an endowment intended to support the institution.

The meeting included testy exchanges and points between Trump and Representative Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat, who has led the campaign to block efforts to memorialize the president at the Kennedy Center.

Meanwhile, the name change Redd was protesting didn't survive either.

In May 2026, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled that the board didn't have the authority to rename the Kennedy Center, writing, quote, "Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it," unquote.

Donald's name was removed from the building in June, and on August 10th, the Kennedy Center was ordered to pay Redd $250,479.70 in attorney's fees and other legals co- uh, legal costs.

In the meantime, however, to cover up his shame, Donald had a tarp placed in front of the facade where his name had been.