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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. District Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. weighed ... landed in federal court in Rhode Island last month after ...

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

A federal judge Thursday blocked the Trump administration from freezing up to $3 trillion in funding for federal agency grants, loans and other financial assistance. Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the ...

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 ...

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 ...