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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 ...

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

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

President Donald Trump’s controversial attempt to freeze spending for billions of dollars in federal funds for loans, grants ...

In is his order, Judge McConnell stated that “the broad categorical and sweeping freeze of federal funds is, as the Court found, likely unconstitutional and has caused and continues to cause ...