Two federal judges in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday issued orders tapping the brakes on White House initiatives. One blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from withholding the American Bar Association’s federal grants dedicated to victims of domestic violence and the other prohibited the Trump administration from enforcing an executive order that would have curtailed the bargaining rights of organized foreign-service officers.
U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the District of Columbia reinstated the ABA’s $3.2 million of federal grant awards Wednesday, granting a preliminary injunction that allows the bar association to access the funds and offer legal services to survivors of domestic and sexual violence.