U.S. District Court Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. is expected to rule shortly on whether to block the federal funding ...

U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr. said some aspects of the freeze ordered by the Office of Management and Budget likely ...

As expected, Judge McConnell granted a temporary restraining order preventing the administration from freezing spending.

The decision came in response to a petition by attorneys general in 22 states and Washington, D.C., seeking to block the ...

A federal judge in Rhode Island on Wednesday said he is inclined ... U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell Jr. rejected U.S. Department of Justice arguments that the need for such an order ...

But in Rhode Island, Judge John McConnell Jr. indicated he was not satisfied, siding with lawyers for 22 states and the District of Columbia who filed the suit, which claimed that the harm caused ...

Despite last-minute Trump administration legal maneuvering, U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr. on Wednesday asked ... telling Sarah Rice of the Rhode Island attorney general's office, who ...

A federal district judge issued a temporary restraining order on Friday, essentially blocking the Trump administration from ...

On Wednesday, Matthew J. Vaeth, the acting director for ... D.C., on Tuesday. But in Rhode Island, Judge John McConnell Jr. indicated he was not satisfied, siding with lawyers for 22 states ...

Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island opted not to issue his ruling during the virtual hearing, saying that he first wanted the Democratic attorneys general who ...

If approved, Kennedy will control a $1.7 trillion agency that oversees food and hospital inspections, hundreds of health ...