A federal appeals court has denied the Trump administration’s request to pause a lawsuit, in which 21 states sued the president over his plan to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The decision upholds a lower court’s ruling in May, which put a preliminary injunction on the executive order to dismantle the IMLS and two other agencies. In his opinion, Judge David J. Barron noted that lawyers for the president didn’t successfully argue against the District Court’s decision. The opinion also says that they did not convince the court that they “are likely to succeed on the merits of […]
