Judge furious as he rules Trump blatantly ignored order: 'Ham-handed attempt to bully' [View all]
Source: Raw Story
October 14, 2025 10:21AM ET
A federal judge in Rhode Island has accused the Trump administration of defying its order prohibiting officials from withholding Federal Emergency Management Agency funds from jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with Trump's immigration policies.
U.S. District Judge William Smith in Rhode Island initially blocked the administration from enforcing this policy in September, ruling that it ran afoul of the Administrative Procedure Act.
But in a new scathing opinion handed down on Tuesday, Smith said the administration has basically not changed its policy in any way, and is still telling areas applying for disaster relief they have to follow the policy "conditionally."
"Despite the Court’s order, Defendants have now inserted the contested conditions into Plaintiff States’ award letters for DHS grants, along with statements promising that '(i)f the injunction is stayed, vacated, or extinguished, the [contested conditions] will immediately become effective,'" wrote Smith. This is not acceptable, he wrote, because it's essentially just telling states and cities that the court order isn't worth regarding.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fema-judge-ignores/?utm_source=superhead
Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59597/gov.uscourts.rid.59597.75.0.pdf
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