U.S. District Chief Judge John “Jack” McConnell Jr., who was nominated by President Obama in 2010 and has served as chief ...

McKee also gave a shoutout to Judge McConnell, the RI judge at the center of the court case on Trump's spending freeze.

What was remarkable was not just that McConnell had to issue this order, but that he’s done so twice now, after the administration has simply failed to heed it. The judge reminded federal officials ...

Trump's assertions of broad, unchecked executive power are a predictable result of the court's "immunity" decision ...

Jack” McConnell Jr. as a federal judge to make it through the U.S. Senate in 2011, and even then he won approval strictly along party lines. Not a single Republican voted in favor of the controversial ...

The administration contends that the courts are blocking its lawful power to pause funds for climate programs and other ...

A federal judge ordered Donald Trump to end his pause on federal spending. Trump said if a president can’t look for fraud, we don’t have a country anymore.

BRISTOL − A man who attacked two older women, stabbing them repeatedly with a knife, has been sent to the Adult Correctional ...