2026年6月3日 美国东部时间11:37 / 福克斯新闻
杰弗里斯曾担任埃里克·霍尔德的顾问，梅里克·加兰德主持了她与库珀的婚礼
作者：伊莱恩·马伦 福克斯新闻
下令将唐纳德·特朗普总统的名字从肯尼迪艺术中心移除的法官，其丈夫是一名律师，曾代表前反特朗普的联邦调查局律师，担任众议院1月6日委员会的法律顾问，目前代表前总统乔·拜登——特朗普在裁决发布后抨击这些关系明显存在利益冲突。
特朗普在Truth Social的一篇激烈帖文中声称，美国哥伦比亚特区联邦地区法院法官克里斯托弗·库珀的妻子艾米·杰弗里斯——这位曾在奥巴马时期任职司法部的律师，后来成为特朗普的顶级法律顾问——怂恿丈夫否决特朗普的肯尼迪中心翻新计划，并移除他在该建筑中的名字。
他指出杰弗里斯过去和现在的客户包括他最知名的几位批评者，以此证明她是“激进左翼民主党人”，正在影响丈夫作出不利于他的裁决。
“憎恨特朗普的法官想要保留该建筑开放，因为他妻子可能让他这么做！”特朗普在谈到库珀否决特朗普将肯尼迪中心关闭两年进行翻新的计划时写道。
联邦法官下令移除特朗普在肯尼迪中心的名字，称只有国会有权更名
一张合成照片显示了一名工人在约翰·F·肯尼迪表演艺术中心的升降梯上作业，旁边是美国哥伦比亚特区联邦地区法院法官克里斯托弗·库珀，他裁定唐纳德·特朗普总统的名字应从该建筑中移除。（盖蒂图片社 / 美国哥伦比亚特区联邦地区法院）
库珀于5月29日发布裁决，认定肯尼迪中心董事会投票将该机构更名并加入特朗普名字的行为超出了法律权限。他依据肯尼迪中心的成立章程裁定，只有国会才能更改该机构的名称，该章程明确表示该场馆是为纪念约翰·F·肯尼迪总统而建。
特朗普还声称杰弗里斯“不用‘库珀’这个姓氏，因为他们夫妇不想让人知道她与这位重要法官存在利益冲突”。
这位总统指出了杰弗里斯的职业背景，其中包括在奥巴马政府期间担任司法部长埃里克·霍尔德的顾问。特朗普及其盟友指责奥巴马政府将有关俄罗斯干预2016年大选的情报政治化，并宣扬特朗普竞选团队与克里姆林宫存在关联的指控。联邦调查局将其针对俄罗斯所谓与特朗普竞选团队关联的调查命名为“跨火飓风”。
谁是诺曼·艾森？这位反特朗普律师正代理起诉司法部的联邦调查局特工
2018年7月12日，在华盛顿国会山雷伯恩众议院办公大楼，联邦调查局副局长彼得·斯特佐克准备在众议院司法委员会与监督及政府改革委员会的联合听证会上作证。（奇普·索莫德维拉 / 盖蒂图片社）
2018年，联邦调查局“跨火飓风”调查的高级调查员彼得·斯特佐克与其当时的情人丽莎·佩奇——联邦调查局律师、副局长安德鲁·麦凯布的顾问——之间交换的数千条短信被公开。尽管佩奇并未参与俄罗斯调查，但两人的反特朗普言论引发了一些批评，有人认为这些交流暴露了联邦调查局内部的政治偏见。
杰弗里斯在国会对联邦调查局处理前国务卿希拉里·克林顿使用私人电子邮件服务器处理官方国务院事务的调查进行审查期间，代理了佩奇的案件。佩奇本人并未参与克林顿邮件调查。
后来，杰弗里斯再次代理佩奇参与针对联邦调查局和司法部的民事诉讼，她在诉讼中辩称，披露这些短信的行为不当。
多年后，杰弗里斯担任众议院调查1月6日国会山骚乱的特别委员会的外部法律顾问，就证据、证人证词和行政特权主张等法律问题为委员会成员提供建议。该委员会调查了骚乱的起因、推翻2020年总统大选的企图，以及特朗普在袭击前的行动。
肯尼迪中心董事会全票通过更名，特朗普名字被加入该建筑
约翰·F·肯尼迪表演艺术中心建筑外的标识。（盖蒂图片社）
特朗普还指出，杰弗里斯所在的赫克-芬克律师事务所（原名为卡普兰-赫克-芬克律师事务所）曾代表E·珍·卡罗尔提起针对他的民事诉讼。
自2025年7月以来，杰弗里斯一直担任拜登的私人律师，目前正代表这位前总统应诉一起诉讼，该诉讼试图阻止司法部公布拜登与特别检察官罗伯特·赫尔的采访记录和音频文件，赫尔此前曾调查拜登处理机密文件的情况。
“艾米完全融入左翼体系，从她丈夫往下都是如此，我不可能得到公平审判，”特朗普在Truth Social上写道，“他完全存在利益冲突，应该因未披露这些事实而被指控。”
库珀由巴拉克·奥巴马总统任命，自2014年起在华盛顿哥伦比亚特区的美国联邦地区法院任职。
库珀面临的批评并非首次被特朗普及其盟友指控存在潜在利益冲突。在特别检察官约翰·达勒姆起诉前与克林顿竞选团队有关联的律师迈克尔·萨斯曼的案件中，库珀曾受到审查，批评人士认为他本应回避审理，因为他的妻子、律师艾米·杰弗里斯曾代表前联邦调查局律师丽莎·佩奇，而佩奇与联邦调查局的“跨火飓风”调查有关联。
萨斯曼案件源于达勒姆对联邦调查局“跨火飓风”调查起源的调查。检方指控萨斯曼在2016年大选期间向联邦调查局提交有关特朗普组织与俄罗斯阿尔法银行之间所谓通信渠道的指控时， falsely声称自己未代表任何客户。库珀驳回了萨斯曼在庭审前驳回案件的动议，允许达勒姆的诉讼继续进行，但在2022年5月经过库珀主持的为期两周的审判后，陪审团最终裁定萨斯曼无罪。
2026年3月16日，唐纳德·特朗普总统在白宫东厅与肯尼迪中心董事会成员共进午餐时发表讲话。（乔纳森·恩斯特 / 路透社）
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库珀和杰弗里斯自1999年起结婚。他们的婚礼由前拜登政府司法部长梅里克·加兰德主持，当时加兰德担任美国哥伦比亚特区巡回上诉法院法官。
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Judge with intimate ties to Dem Party’s key Russia Hoax players behind latest anti-Trump decision
June 3, 2026 11:37am EDT / Fox News
Jeffress served as counselor to AG Eric Holder and her wedding to Cooper was officiated by Merrick Garland
By Elaine Mallon, Fox News
The judge who ordered President Donald Trump’s name removed from the Kennedy Center is married to an attorney who has represented a former anti-Trump FBI lawyer, served as counsel to the House Jan. 6 committee and currently represents former President Joe Biden — relationships that Trump blasted as clear conflicts of interest following the ruling.
Trump claimed in a heated Truth Social post that U.S. District Court of D.C. Judge Christopher Cooper’s wife, Amy Jeffress, a former Obama-era Justice Department attorney turned top lawyer of Trump’, encouraged her husband to reject Trump’s Kennedy Center renovation plans and remove his name from the building.
He pointed to Jeffress’ past and current clients, which include some of his most prominent critics, as evidence that she is “a Radical Left Democrat” who is influencing her husband to rule against him.
“Trump Hating Judge wants to keep it open because his wife probably told him to do so!” Trump wrote of Cooper, referring to his rejection of Trump’s plans to close the Kennedy Center for two years for renovations.
FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP’S NAME REMOVED FROM KENNEDY CENTER, SAYS ONLY CONGRESS CAN RENAME IT
A composite photo shows a worker on a lift at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, alongside U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, who ruled that President Donald Trump’s name be removed from the building.(Getty / and the U.S. District Court of D.C.)
Cooper issued his ruling on May 29, finding that the Kennedy Center board exceeded its legal authority when it voted to rename the institution to include Trump’s name. He ruled that only Congress can change the institution’s name based on the Kennedy Center’s founding statute, which makes clear that the venue is dedicated to President John F. Kennedy.
Trump also alleged Jeffress “doesn’t use the ‘Cooper’ name because they, as a couple, don’t want people to know that she has a Conflict of Interest with an important Judge.”
The president pointed to Jeffress’ professional background, which included serving as a counselor to Attorney General Eric Holder during the Obama administration. Trump and his allies have accused the Obama administration of politicizing intelligence about Russian interference in the 2016 election and promoting allegations of ties between Trump’s campaign and the Kremlin. The FBI named its investigation into Russia’s alleged ties to Trump’s campaign Crossfire Hurricane.
WHO IS NORM EISEN? MEET THE ANTI-TRUMP ATTORNEY REPPING FBI AGENTS SUING THE DOJ
Deputy Assistant FBI Director Peter Strzok prepares to testify before a joint hearing of the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on July 12, 2018.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Thousands of text messages exchanged between Peter Strzok, a senior investigator on the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe, and his then-lover Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer and adviser to Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, became public in 2018. Although Page was not involved in the Russia investigation, the pair’s anti-Trump messages prompted criticism from some who argued the exchanges revealed political bias within the FBI.
Jeffress represented Page during congressional scrutiny of the FBI’s handling of its investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server for official State Department business. Page was not involved in the Clinton email investigation itself.
She later represented Page again in a civil lawsuit against the FBI and the Justice Department, in which she argued that the disclosure of the text messages was improper.
Years later, Jeffress served as outside counsel to the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, advising members on legal issues involving evidence, witness testimony and executive privilege claims. The committee examined the causes of the riot, efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and Trump’s actions leading up to the attack.
TRUMP’S NAME ADDED TO KENNEDY CENTER FOLLOWING UNANIMOUS BOARD VOTE TO RENAME HISTORIC BUILDING
A sign is displayed on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts building.(Getty Images)
The president also pointed to Jeffress’ law firm, Hecker Fink LLP, formerly known as Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP, which represented E. Jean Carroll in her civil lawsuit against him.
Since July 2025, Jeffress has served as Biden’s personal attorney and is representing the former president in a lawsuit seeking to block the Justice Department from releasing transcripts and audio recordings of Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated Biden’s handling of classified documents.
“Amy is totally wired into the Left System, from her husband down, and it is impossible for me to be treated fairly,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “He has a total Conflict of Interest, and should be brought up on charges for not revealing these facts.”
Appointed by President Barack Obama, Cooper has served on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C., since 2014.
The criticism facing Cooper is not the first time he has been accused by Trump or his allies of having a potential conflict of interest. Cooper previously drew scrutiny during Special Counsel John Durham’s prosecution of former Clinton campaign-linked attorney Michael Sussmann, with critics arguing that he should have recused himself because his wife, attorney Amy Jeffress, represented former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, a figure tied to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
The Sussmann case stemmed from Durham’s probe into the origins of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Prosecutors alleged that Sussmann falsely told the FBI he was not acting on behalf of any clients when he presented allegations about a purported communications channel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank during the 2016 election. Cooper rejected Sussmann’s effort to dismiss the case before trial and allowed Durham’s prosecution to proceed, but a jury ultimately acquitted Sussmann in May 2022 after a two-week trial overseen by Cooper.
President Donald Trump speaks during a luncheon with Kennedy Center board members in the East Room of the White House in Washington on March 16, 2026.(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
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Fox News Digital reached out to Cooper’s office, Jeffress, a representative for former President Joe Biden, Page, a representative for Garland, and Hecker Fink LLP for comment.
Cooper and Jeffress have been married since 1999. Their wedding was officiated by former Biden Justice Department Attorney General Merrick Garland, who at the time was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Elaine Mallon is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business covering national politics.