U.S. District Judge John McConnell says he may grant a restraining order against President Donald Trump's federal funding freeze due in part to a social media post by White House press secretary ...

President Trump's push to punish law firms faced another setback Friday, as a judge ruled his order targeting Jenner & Block ...

U.S. District Judge John McConnell filed a new motion Monday ordering the Trump administration to comply with a restraining order issued Jan. 31, temporarily blocking the administration’s ...

U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued an order directing the Trump administration to immediately obey a previous restraining order halting a funding freeze for the National Institutes of ...

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 ...

PROVIDENCE – A Rhode Island judge ... McConnell in the coming weeks. Hours after McConnell's ruling, the Trump administration filed notice that it is appealing the temporary restraining order ...

U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr. ruled March 6 that President ... McConnell earlier had issued a temporary restraining order barring the Trump administration from withholding funds.

The states asked U.S. District Judge John McConnell to impose a preliminary injunction on the freeze after he already approved a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration and found ...