Posted on 04/16/2025 4:40:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
(Reuters) -A U.S. judge blocked President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday from freezing billions of dollars in grants Congress authorized under climate investment and infrastructure laws of his Democratic predecessor, former President Joe Biden.
U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy in Providence, Rhode Island, issued an injunction at the behest of environmental groups who argued the Trump administration was unlawfully freezing already-awarded funding for projects to combat climate change, reduce pollution and modernize U.S. infrastructure.
The group that led the lawsuit, Democracy Forward, said in a statement that Trump's action was an abuse of executive power.
The funding had been authorized by Congress pursuant to Biden's $1-trillion bill known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 and his signature 2022 climate investment law, the Inflation Reduction Act.
In a lawsuit filed on March 13, the Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council, National Council of Nonprofits, Eastern Rhode Island Conservation District and Green Infrastructure Center argued the agencies lacked authority to unilaterally withhold already-awarded congressionally-authorized funds.
They said the agencies froze the money despite earlier rulings by another judge in Rhode Island, who at the urging of a group of Democratic-led states, blocked the administration from carrying out a sweeping, blanket freeze on $3 trillion in federal grants, loans and other financial assistance.
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Obama stooge.
Hey congress when due we slap down these judges? after 4 years? get up off your fat a##es and do something NOW!
Yawn, just appeal and move on. Black Robe tyrants will be tyrants. keep the money tied up in appeals has the same affect.
Ignore, ignore, ignore...
These black-robed typrants don’t even deserve a paycheck.
Hope someone is making a list of these lefty “Judges” fo future action
I grew up very impressed with the framers, the founders the fathers of this country. Geniuses. Some of them inventors - spectacular legendary men. But the judicial branch— I’m surprised they didn’t see this coming. A very loud flaw. America was an experiment for them, and we did well for about 200 years as they assumed. After that it’s been downhill.
Why don’t those R bastards in the House and Senate rush to help? They could pass rush bills to legally codify the ERs within 72 hours.
I had no idea how unbelievably powerful a Federal judge is. Democrats have struck gold with this method of obstruction—the newly weaponIzed FOURTH branch of government.
ABSOLUTELY. You said it!
They saw it coming a fretted over a Roberts like bastard creating judicial tyranny.
Yet again, a partisan Democratic hack in a black robe abuses her authority to attack Trump’s decisions as President.
all brought to you by non-white people. And in the last 50 years, aided by stupid white people...
They have those leftist activist judges on speed dial apparently.
that is because not a single person has been arrested for ANYTHING “yet”...
“They could pass rush bills to legally codify the ERs within 72 hours.”
The problem is that the tool Congress makes today may be used as a weapon tomorrow. Eventually, we’ll have another Obama, or Biden. Gosh, Clinton, LBJ and Carter barely count in the bad president’s list by comparison!
Why do we need a president when we have power-hungry judges?
this would be my solution...
with all the fraud found, every time one of these judges act up, drop the hammer and arrest a democrat for fraud. not a single person can convince me they cant do this. not a single person can convince me it wouldnt work El’Quicko!!!
And slap the GOPe congress even harder for doing nothing about repealing as much as they can from the worst legislation in our lifetime. There is no money to pay for this and the Xiden thugs ‘printed’ money to pay for this causing the inflation we have seen the past few years.
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