Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island John J. McConnell, Jr. granted an injunction ...

A federal judge in Rhode Island extended a block on president Donald Trump's domestic funding freeze. U.S. District judge ...

Judge John J. McConnell Jr. granted 23 states, including Rhode Island and Massachusetts, a preliminary injunction, ordering ...

A judge on Thursday agreed to continue to block the federal government from freezing billions of dollars in funding to states.

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

It took three times for President Barack Obama’s nomination of John J ... Frank J. Perry, deputy clerk of U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, stated McConnell’s assignment ...

The states' challenge to Trump's freeze on spending landed in federal court in Rhode Island last month after authorities ...

A federal judge in Rhode Island extended his order Thursday barring the government from freezing federal funding to a ...

U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr. said the attempt to pause trillions in federal spending "fundamentally undermines the ...

U.S. District Court Chief Judge John J. McConnell is presiding over the case, filed in Rhode Island, brought by more than 20 state attorneys general against the Trump administration. McConnell has ...

Judge McConnell ... A Rhode Island judge on Monday ordered the federal government to comply with a court-issued directive halting a freeze on funding that organizations have complained is hamstringing ...