Appeals court rejects Trump bid to reinstate funding freeze
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Justice Department's request to pause a judge's order while it challenges the order in court.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected the Trump administration's bid to pause a lower court's order that temporarily halted a massive freeze in federal funding.
A judge in Rhode Island blocked the funding freeze Monday and ordered the government to “immediately restore frozen funding.”
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In its ruling Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote that the "defendants do not cite any authority in support of their administrative stay request or identify any harm related to a specific funding action or actions that they will face without their requested administrative stay."
The Justice Department had sought two different kinds of pauses of U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell's restraining order barring the government from continuing to implement its sweeping freeze of funding and another ruling that found that government had violated the order. Lawyers for the Justice Department contended in part that McConnell's order was vague, but the appeals court suggested they should be patient.
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