The federal judge maintains a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump’s spending freeze, but she is considering entering another hold known as the interim injunction.
US District Judge Lauren Alican said he would maintain the block at the end of the February 20 hearing in Washington. There, he warned of a drastic injunction against the Trump administration’s freeze on government spending.
The case centers around a now-respected memo advising agencies that advise agencies that should suspend spending in pursuit of various executive orders from Trump.
Trump administration lawyers urge Alican to prevent speculative harm given that no additional injunction is required and plaintiffs, including multiple nonprofits, have been revoked, are required to prevent speculative harm. He said he was there.
The administration also argued that it was reasonable for executives to impose temporary suspensions of spending to the extent permitted by law.
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Plaintiff’s attorney Kevin Friedle told Alican that while concerns remained justifying the initial restraining order, his client had access to fundraising after court intervention.
“Since the court’s order, the freeze appears to be largely dedicated (but not entirely, to slow, slow, and to degree,” the plaintiff said in a February 11 filing.
“In the (temporary restraint order) stage, individual declarants who described the difficulty in accessing funds were then able to derive open awards.”
At both the hearing and briefing, the plaintiff’s lawyers reported that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had continued to freeze funds.
On February 20, the administration showed that FEMA’s actions were separate from the OMB memo.
The administration appeals McConnell’s order, and its lawyers say the Rhode Island order effectively requires Alican to make it clear in advance from the court to exercise its powers to withhold funds. He spoke.
