Rhode Island leaders say Judge John “Jack” McConnell Jr. is well-equipped to handle the pressure that comes with ruling ...

Judge McConnell is enforcing a temporary restraining order against Trump's spending freeze AGs claimed that, despite the ...

Now McConnell, sitting since 2019 as chief judge of the U.S. District Court, is at the center of a high-stakes legal battle between Democratic states and President Donald Trump’s administration over a ...

A Republican member of the House has issued articles of impeachment against the federal judge who blocked Trump's funding ...

A federal judge in Rhode Island is making national headlines after he halted President Donald Trump's federal funding freeze.

U.S. District Chief Judge John “Jack” McConnell Jr., who was nominated by President Obama in 2010 and has served as chief ...

A federal judge in Rhode Island reaffirmed Wednesday his order halting the Trump administration’s funding freeze.

A court can impose sanctions, fines or enact other penalties if the Trump administration refuses to comply with Judge McConnell's orders.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday appealed U.S. District Court Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr.’s orders. That order stopped the government from withholding grant money and instructed the ...

The federal judge in Rhode Island said the Trump administration had failed to comply with his order unfreezing billions of ...

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha, one of the leads in the states’ challenge to the sweeping funding freeze, hailed the order. “Judge McConnell’s ruling in our favor was swift ...

U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell granted a “motion for enforcement” of a temporary restraining order, or TRO, he signed last month, blocking President Donald Trump’s freeze of ...