Though generally well liked in Rhode Island, McConnell's order blocking a freeze on funding and his follow-up order generated blowback from Washington, D.C., where Vice President JD Vance pondered the ...

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

Chief Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island has faced unwarranted ...

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

U.S. District Court in Rhode Island is ground zero on the administration’s efforts to freeze funding for thousands of federal programs On Monday, Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. ordered 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 ...

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 ...

John J. McConnell, Jr., chief judge of the U.S. district court in Rhode Island, ordered the Trump administration to “immediately restore frozen funding” after determining officials violated his prior ...

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 ...

Judge John J. McConnell Jr. had issued ... injunction request,” ruled Judge McConnell, an Obama appointee to the federal court in Rhode Island. President Trump’s budget office had ordered ...

PROVIDENCE – A Rhode Island judge on Monday ordered ... U.S. District Court Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. ordered President Trump’s administration to immediately restore frozen funding ...