Mr. Clayton, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan and a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has been overseeing an office known for prominent cases.
Jay Clayton, then serving as the U.S. attorney, at Gracie Mansion in New York last March. President Trump said he plans to choose him as the next director of national intelligence.
One day before a deadline to take the president’s name off its facade, the arts institution appealed a federal judge’s ruling that also temporarily blocked it from closing.
Judge Christopher R. Cooper ruled that only Congress had the power to alter the name of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which was dedicated to the president in a 1964 law.