‘Whoops!’ Trump lawyers caught erasing key Kennedy Center closure justification

The Trump administration's lawyers just pulled back a key argument for shutting down the Kennedy Center, and a legal expert noticed right away.In a notice of errata filed Wednesday in federal court in Washington, Justice Department attorneys withdrew their claim that renovating the building in phases would cost $41 million more than closing it temporarily. The comparison, they acknowledged, came from a version of a consultant's report that the Kennedy Center's board never received ahead of its August meeting."Whoops!" legal expert Adam Klasfeld posted on X."The Kennedy Center's Trump-installed Board quietly revises a key justification for the two-year closure," Klasfeld wrote, adding that "a report supposedly found phased renovations would cost $41M more.""The Board admits it never read that before voting," he added.The case was brought by Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) and is before U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper.The notice, signed by Justice Department trial attorney William S. Jankowski,...