Emergency hearing sought over abrupt Kennedy Center closure

WASHINGTON >> Lawyers for a Democratic lawmaker today requested an emergency hearing in federal court over whether the abrupt closure of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts violates a judge’s earlier order that barred the institution from shuttering.
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