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WASHINGTON — <\/span>Rep. Joyce Beatty made an emergency request on Thursday that a federal court block the Kennedy Center from returning President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> name to the building.<\/p>\n The Trump-aligned board at the Kennedy Center voted earlier this month to inscribe the president’s name on the venue\u2019s facade so it would read \u201cThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Restored and Renovated By President Donald J. Trump.\u201d If the Trump Kennedy Center Fund reached $100 million, another inscription would be added reading \u201cEndowed by the Trump Kennedy Center Fund.\u201d<\/p>\n The plaza in front of the Kennedy Center would also be renamed to recognize Trump.<\/p>\n The Kennedy Center has said it wouldn\u2019t attempt<\/a> to engrave Trump\u2019s name on the building before Sept. 8 to allow for legal arguments to unfold. <\/p>\n Beatty, an Ohio Democrat and ex officio member of the Kennedy Center, has led the effort to prevent Trump from memorializing himself there. In asking for the court\u2019s intervention, her lawyers, Norm Eisen and Nathaniel Zelinsky, wrote that the board’s actions amounted to \u201cclear violations\u201d of an earlier court order.<\/p>\n A representative for the Kennedy Center didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment. The resolution approved by Trump\u2019s allies on the board said the Kennedy Center \u201cwould be in financial ruin without President Trump\u2019s unique stature as both an unparalleled fundraiser and world-class developer.\u201d<\/p>\n Congress named the performing arts center as a living memorial to Kennedy in 1964, the year after he was assassinated. The law explicitly prohibits<\/a> the board of trustees from making the center into a memorial to anyone else, and from putting another person\u2019s name on the building\u2019s exterior.<\/p>\n