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

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has urged for the impeachment of Rhode Island’s chief federal judge over his rulings that blocked ...

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

RI was awarded $600 million, including $220 million for the Washington Bridge, by the former Biden administration ...

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

The courts have been one of the most effective tools to curtail Trump’s power grabs, even more-so now with a MAGA-captured Congress whose GOP leaders appear content to abdicate their power in ...

U.S. District Chief Judge John “Jack” McConnell Jr., who was nominated by President Obama in 2010 and has served as chief ...

McKee also gave a shoutout to U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell Jr., the RI judge at the center of the court case on ...

A federal judge in Rhode Island reaffirmed Wednesday his order halting the Trump administration’s funding freeze.

Rhode Island leaders say Judge John “Jack” McConnell Jr. is well-equipped to handle the pressure that comes with ruling ...

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 ...