“This situation cannot last for another day,” wrote the DOJ lawyer.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will put a Boston-based appeals court on Tuesday withholding a federal judge’s decision that bans the Trump administration from freeing federal grants, loans and other financial aid. I asked.
In court documents filed Monday in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, DOJ ruled that Rhode Island-based US District Judge John McConnell opposed the administration’s prior ruling issued in January. When he defeated the law, he accused him of engaging in “unbearable judicial overreach.” 31 When he continued to withhold billions of dollars in federal funds.
They further stated that the judges “exceptional, unprecedented powers by single district court judges to oversee and manage the expenditure of federal funds of administrative agencies in a clear violation of the separation of constitutional powers. He claimed that he had conveyed the claim.
The DOJ’s lawyer then said the Boston-based court of appeals “will need to make the pending disposition of this appeal and enter the immediate administrative stay of the order until the appeal for stay is resolved.” I stated.
Earlier on Monday, McConnell granted an allegation of enforcement orders to the Trump administration to restore funds that were frozen last month and end a suspension of federal funds.
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They were suing after the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo last month announcing a freeze that could include trillions of dollars in spending. OMB retracted that note later that week. However, McConnell concluded that a temporary restraining order is still necessary because of evidence that a funding freeze is in effect and that the OMB to draw a note is in “Name-Onlyly”.
On Friday, the Democratic state attorney general urged McConnell to enforce the order, putting the administration in a position that it could undertake billions of dollars in infrastructure and environmental funding under the Infrastructure Reduction and Infrastructure Improvement Act. He said he took it.
Reuters contributed to this report.
