Twenty-one states won a preliminary injunction against the Executive Order to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Minority Business Development Agency, and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. The court also denied a request by the defendants, which include President Trump, to stay the decision for seven days. “This Executive Order violates the Administrative Procedures Act in the arbitrary and capricious way it was carried out,” Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. writes in an order from the US District Court of Rhode Island. “It also disregards the fundamental constitutional role of each of the branches of our […]
