A federal judge will on Friday consider a request to further block President Donald Trump ’s administration from freezing ...

1/27: Trump’s budget office issues a two-page memo ordering a total freeze on federal spending that fell under previous Trump Executive Orders, including spending connected to “DEI,” the “Green New ...

President of the Rhode Island Bar Association defends RI Judge who's faced threats and criticism after blocking Trump's ...

Though generally well liked in Rhode Island, McConnell's order blocking a freeze on funding and his follow-up order generated ...

A Georgia congressman is promising to file impeachment articles against Rhode Island’s chief federal judge after he ruled ...

U.S. District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, during a virtual court hearing, said state agencies had a "rightful concern" that they were still not able to fully access money ...

The Rhode Island District Court seemed to draft its TRO to survive appellate scrutiny. In that opinion, Chief Judge McConnell cited to an opinion drafted by Justice Kavanaugh in 2013 while serving ...

Days later in Rhode Island, Judge John McConnell granted a temporary restraining order preventing the freeze from taking effect. In his ruling, he said the 22 states that sued over the guidance ...

Federal court judge John McConnell in Rhode Island, late on Jan. 31 issued a separate restraining order, that was requested by 22 Democratic-run states and Washington, D.C., also barring the ...

The Constitution of the United States requires the president to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. All that means, in plain English, is that when an act of Congress becomes law, the ...

Friday’s decision, from federal Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the District of Rhode Island, is a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration. It requires the administration not ...

Judge John J. McConnell of the US District Court for the District of Rhode Island held that the Trump administration “shall not pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel, or terminate…obligations to ...