Jack” McConnell Jr. as a federal judge to make it through the U.S. Senate in 2011, and even then he won approval strictly along party lines. No Republican voted to approve controversial pick.

Trump’s executive orders and firings sparked lawsuits over presidential authority. Experts are saying he is renewing founding ...

The mogul seems bent on pushing the Trump White House into a nuclear confrontation with the federal judiciary. He has the ...

Rhode Island Federal Judge John McConnell ordered the Trump administration to immediately restore funding it had frozen during its illegal wide-ranging funding suspension last month.

For all of Trump’s abuses of power in his first term, culminating in his attempt to subvert the 2020 election, his ...

An appeals court judge denied the Trump administration’s request for an administrative stay to block a court order that ...

President Donald Trump‘s efforts to reduce the size of the federal government and rein in wasteful spending have been stymied ...

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

A court can impose sanctions, fines or enact other penalties if the Trump administration refuses to comply with Judge McConnell's orders.

House GOP Rep. Andrew Clyde wants to file articles of impeachment against a federal judge who blocked the Trump ...

Since Trump froze all federal spending shortly after taking office last month, the fate of as much as $600 million in U.S. Department of Transportation funding awarded to Rhode Island for multiple ...

Columnist Ruben Navarrette writes that President Donald Trump seems poised to go to war against the judiciary — an ...