A federal judge who has ruled twice to halt executive actions by President Donald Trump previously gave about $500,000 in campaign contributions to Democrats
The judge, U.S. District Judge John McConnell of the District of Rhode Island, will also preside over yet another case involving Trump. All three cases involve federal funding.
In one case, McConnell sided with a coalition of Democrat state attorneys general to stop a federal funding freeze. In another, he sided with the state of Rhode Island regarding federal funding cuts.
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Next, McConnell will be ruling on a separate case brought by 20 Democrat state attorneys general against the Trump administration for threatening to withhold federal funds from jurisdictions that do not enforce federal immigration law, in the case of California v. U.S. Department of Transportation. McConnell is a Barack Obama appointee.
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