U.S. District Court Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. said at least some aspects of the governmentwide funding freeze ordered by a since-retracted Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo ...

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

Judge John J. McConnell Jr. had issued an earlier ... weighed in with orders halting the pause, and the Office of Management and Budget later rescinded the pause. Trump administration lawyers ...

Now McConnell, sitting since 2019 as chief judge of the U.S. District Court, is at the center of a high-stakes legal battle between Democratic states and President Donald Trump’s administration over a ...

U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued a temporary restraining ... s argument that the case was moot after the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded a memo outlining the freeze.