Judge asked to compel Trump administration to disclose emails and texts about Kennedy Center plans
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper didn’t immediately rule on their request to compel disclosure of the records.
The list of withheld documents includes 19 text messages between Kennedy Center executive director and CEO Matt Floca and Trump executive assistant Natalie Harp regarding Kennedy Center-related matters. They exchanged 11 of those messages on Sept. 15, when the center’s board voted for a third time to close the facility, according to Beatty’s lawyers.
The list also includes approximately 180 center-related texts between Floca and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who was acting as Trump’s “go-between,” Beatty’s lawyers say. The plaintiffs’ attorneys suspect the administration is engaging in impermissible “gamesmanship.”
“Without access to these materials, (Beatty) will lack a complete picture of Defendants’ actions,” they wrote.
The White House didn’t immediately comment on the court filing.
Cooper, who was nominated to the bench by Democratic President Barack Obama, ruled in May that the Kennedy Center illegally added Trump’s name to the building and ordered it removed.
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