Former Institute of Peace board members ask court to stop addition of Trump name to headquarters

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Former board members for the U.S. Institute of Peace asked a federal court on Thursday to block the Trump administration from etching President Trump’s name into the facade of the institute’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

In an emergency petition filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, lawyers for the former institute leadership alleged the administration “now intends to carve” Trump’s name into the building. 

“The threatened carving would impose serious irreparable harm,” the attorneys wrote in their filing. “It is a discrete act that can and should be........

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