U.S. District Court Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. ordered President Trump’s administration to immediately restore frozen ...

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.

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 ...

The case is scheduled to reconvene in-person at the U.S. District Court of Rhode Island on Feb. 21, at the request of several ...

PROVIDENCE – The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the federal government's bid for an immediate stay of a federal court order barring it from pausing federal spending, finding that the ...