A federal judge has barred AmeriCorps from terminating its grant funding of a Louisiana nonprofit group, concluding that the Trump administration’s cut in funding likely violated federal law and the group’s due-process rights.
Judge John W. deGravelles granted Serve Louisiana’s motion for a preliminary injunction against the federal agency, which is also known as the Corporation for National and Community Service. The Baton Rouge-based judge’s June 27 ruling follows an AmeriCorp’s notification to its grant fund recipients nationwide in April that nearly $400 million would be terminated from the grant program.
Serve Louisiana, which employs 37 AmeriCorps members who work with 18 nonprofit and community groups in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, later sued the federal agency, arguing that the agency’s actions violated both its due-process rights under the Constitution and the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).
The reason AmeriCorps gave for its termination of grant funding to Serve Louisiana was “because (AmeriCorps) has been determined that the award no longer effectuates agency priorities.” DeGravelles rejected the explanation as inadequate.
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