(CN) — A Rhode Island federal judge on Monday prohibited the Department of Homeland Security from making state counterterrorism grant funding contingent on cooperation with ICE operations.
“Defendants’ wanton abuse of their role in federal grant administration is particularly troublesome given the fact that they have been entrusted with a most solemn duty: safeguarding our nation and its citizens,” U.S. District Judge Mary S. McElroy, a Donald Trump appointee, wrote in her 48-page opinion.
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