PROVIDENCE – President Donald Trump’s administration is appealing a court order barring the government ... by U.S. District Court Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. that granted a preliminary ...

US District Judge John McConnell had a massive conflict when he ruled against a federal funding freeze by the Trump ...

After a Rhode Island court ordered the reinstatement of employees and awarded grants at the Institute of Museum and Library ...

In Rhode Island v. Trump, district court judge John J. McConnell Jr. ordered a halt to an executive order dismantling the ...

In a 49-page decision, U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr., an Obama appointee, found the President Trump’s executive order seeks to claw from Congress its power both to establish and disband ...

U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr. sided with a 21-state coalition Tuesday, issuing a preliminary injunction to halt one of Trump’s executive orders dismantling federal agencies that support ...

The order violates the federal Administrative Procedures Act “in the arbitrary and capricious way it was carried out,” wrote Judge John J. McConnell of the U.S. District Court for Rhode Island.

U.S. District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, agreed with 21 mostly Democrat-led states that Trump's March executive order directing that the agencies effectively be wiped out ...

U.S. District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, agreed with 21 mostly Democrat-led states that Trump's March executive order, opens new tab directing that the agencies effectively ...