October 14, 2025
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies did "precisely" what a Rhode Island federal court forbade when they recently told states that they must agree to help with immigration enforcement in order to receive disaster and security funding, a judge ruled Tuesday.
September 24, 2025
The Trump administration unlawfully attached conditions to emergency service funding that required states to cooperate with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's immigration enforcement, a Rhode Island federal judge ruled Wednesday, agreeing with a multistate coalition that the conditions are unconstitutional, arbitrary and capricious.
July 02, 2025
A collective of 20 states said Wednesday that only Congress can change the terms of federal grants, telling a Rhode Island federal judge that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's softening of its stance on withholding funds to states that don't cooperate with immigration enforcement cannot moot their suit against the government.
May 13, 2025
A 20-state coalition hit the Trump administration with lawsuits Tuesday in Rhode Island federal court asking the court to stop the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Transportation from conditioning billions of state grant dollars on enforcing the president's immigration agenda.