State AG’s ask federal judge to enforce order against freezing funds

Democratic attorneys general from throughout the country on Friday asked a federal judge to enforce a temporary restraining order he issued late last month, alleging the Trump administration is not complying with the court’s ruling.

The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee also raised questions about the ongoing pause in some grants and loans.

The attorneys general wrote in an emergency motion that “there has been an ever-changing kaleidoscope of federal financial assistance that has been suspended, deleted, in transit, under review, and more since entry of the Order.”

They asked Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island, who issued the temporary restraining order on Jan. 31, to order the Trump administration “to immediately restore funds and desist from the federal funding pause until the preliminary injunction motion can be heard and decided, a process which is proceeding expeditiously in separate proceedings before this Court.”

McConnell is giving the Department of Justice until Sunday to respond.

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The motion:

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