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 ...

Rhode Island leaders say Judge John “Jack” McConnell Jr. is well-equipped to handle the pressure that comes with ruling ...

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration can continue efforts to withhold tens of millions of dollars ...

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

A federal judge ordered Donald Trump to end his pause on federal spending. Trump said if a president can’t look for fraud, we don’t have a country anymore.

This is the first time in President Donald Trump’s second term that a federal judge has accused his administration of defying ...

U.S. District Court Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. ordered President Trump’s administration to immediately restore frozen funding and to halt any pauses in disbursement of congressionally ...

A federal judge on Wednesday clarified that the executive branch under President Donald Trump retains some authority to pause ...

A federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration to comply with his order to unfreeze federal grants, after ...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday declined to temporarily block a lower court’s orders directing the Trump administration to ...

As we recently outlined, on January 31, 2025, U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) that blocks the ...

In the face of alleged disruptions to the dispersal of federal funding, Chief Judge John McConnell Jr. ’80 of the Rhode ...