Judge targeted by GOP for impeachment deals blow to Trump's FEMA objectives

A Rhode Island national justice targeted for impeachment dealt the Trump medication a ineligible stroke connected Friday, ordering it to assistance a frost connected national funds.

U.S. District Judge John McConnell ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to unfreeze national funds to states aft plaintiffs alleged the bureau had failed to comply with an earlier tribunal order.

The suit was primitively launched by 22 states and the District of Columbia, challenging the Trump administration’s determination to artifact backing for programs similar the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Climate Pollution Reduction Grant and different biology initiatives. 

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A Rhode Island national judge, presently astatine the halfway of an impeachment debacle, dealt the Trump medication a ineligible stroke connected Friday, ordering the medication to unpause a national funds freeze. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Plaintiffs successful the suit, including the states of New York, California, Illinois and Rhode Island, argued that FEMA's implementation of a manual reappraisal process for outgo requests violated a erstwhile preliminary injunction issued by McConnell. The states argued that the reappraisal "constitutes 'a categorical intermission oregon frost of backing due by Congress.'"

The defendants, which see President Donald Trump and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), responded that the reappraisal did not interruption the bid due to the fact that "FEMA is relying connected its ain autarkic authorities to instrumentality the process alternatively than the OMB Directive."

McConnell concluded that the plaintiffs had "presented grounds that powerfully suggests that FEMA is implementing this manual reappraisal process based, covertly, connected the President's January 20, 2025 enforcement order." 

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"The Court reaffirms its preliminary injunction order," McConnell wrote. 

McConnell had issued a restraining bid successful precocious January that enjoined the defendants from freezing national funds. This came aft OMB released a memo connected Jan. 27 announcing the administration's plans to temporarily intermission national grants and loans. The White House aboriginal rescinded the memo connected Jan. 29. 

Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., left, formally introduced his articles of impeachment against U.S. District Judge John McConnell connected March 24. (Getty Images)

However, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said that the determination didn’t equate a "recission of the national backing freeze." 

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After McConnell ordered the medication to comply with the restraining order, the authorities appealed to the First Circuit — which refused to enactment the orders. 

McConnell besides precocious made headlines aft becoming 1 of respective national judges deed with impeachment articles. 

"Judge McConnell’s actions are corrupt, dangerous, and worthy of impeachment," Clyde told Fox News Digital. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Georgia Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde formally introduced his articles of impeachment against McConnell connected March 24, aft his archetypal announcement successful February. 

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The articles, archetypal shared with Fox News Digital, charged McConnell with maltreatment of powerfulness and conflicts of interest, stating helium "knowingly politicized and weaponized his judicial presumption to beforehand his ain governmental views and beliefs."

"The American radical overwhelmingly voted for President Trump successful November, providing a wide mandate to marque our national authorities much efficient," Clyde told Fox News Digital. "Yet Judge McConnell, who stands to payment from his ain injunction, is attempting to unilaterally obstruct the president’s docket and defy the volition of the American people. Judge McConnell’s actions are corrupt, dangerous, and worthy of impeachment."

Fox News Digital's Diana Stancy contributed to this report.