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

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 ...

In one clandestine recording, the suburban mayor joked of hanging Black people. He called them “spooks.” In another conversation, he casually tossed off the n-word while holding forth at a busy diner, ...

Senior Judge John R. Turner on Wednesday dismissed the 2021 indictment charging Johnson with violating her oath of office, ...

U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell, in Rhode Island, said in his ruling that the wide-ranging directive in the Office of Management and Budget memo that caused chaos and confusion this week in ...

Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island wrote in the 13-page ruling the administration’s “actions violate the Constitution and statutes […] Racine County Eye ...

Governor Hope Uzodimma has given the hint that a new Chief Judge will emerge in Imo State soon. Speaking Friday at the New Exco Chambers, Government House, Owerri, he demonstrated resolve to ...

Chief Judge John McConnell Jr., who issued the order, is the second federal judge to do so. McConnell’s order is significant not only because it puts a second court order between the Trump White ...

U.S. District Court Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. said at least some aspects of the governmentwide funding freeze ordered by a since-retracted Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo ...

U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell of Rhode Island on Friday granted the request for a temporary restraining order sought by the Democrat-led states, which had argued that the actions from ...

Judge John McConnell sided with nearly two dozen states that requested an order preventing most federal agencies from halting funding until the court rules on a request from the states for a ...