The far-reaching federal judge who blocked the federal freeze over President Donald Trump's grants is a nonprofit organization that has raised $128 million in taxpayer money in nearly 20 years when the judge has served on the board. It is listed on the board of directors.
John McConnell, a Supreme Court judge in the US District Court in Rhode Island and appointed by former President Barack Obama, had to know Crossroads Rhode Island, the costume.
This means that the judge trespassed federal law and judicial ethics norms by not rejecting himself from the case that began when Blue State and Washington, D.C. sued to stop the freeze.
Following some of Trump's executive orders, the Office of Management and Budget on January 27th frozen spending on January 27th.
“Of the approximately $10 trillion spent by the federal government in 2024, more than $3 trillion was federal financial support, including grants and loans.”
As expressed through the President's priorities, we have an obligation to coordinate the will of the American people with federal spending and actions with federal spending and actions.
The use of federal resources to promote Marxist equity, transgenderism, and Green New Deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that do not improve the daily lives of the people we serve.
To implement Trump's orders, especially those orders, and in particular their respective diversity, equity and inclusion, Vers suspended federal spending on such grants.
“Federal agencies may be involved in all activities related to all federal financial assistance obligations or payments, as well as other administrative orders that may be involved, including, but not limited to, foreign aid, financial support from non-governmental organizations. We must temporarily suspend relevant institutional activities, awakening gender ideology and the Green New Deal,” the order said.
Arbitration
That didn't work with the blue blue state on the left, which I called to stop the order. In Rhode Island, they found a very friendly judge. It will become McConnell.
On January 31, he issued a temporary restraining order that ordered Trump to resume waste, fraud and abuse.
“Effects that all states rely on federal funds to provide and maintain critical programs and services, and that federal funds withholdings cause serious disruption in their ability to manage such critical services. Introduced: Domination.
“Borrowed billions of dollars for highway planning and construction, child care funding, veteran nursing care, special education grants, and the state health department to run programs that maintain functional health systems,” McConnell said. From the state's health department receiving it to that, it writes that state programs are suffering.
McConnell ruled after Trump retracted the order, and McConnell said, “The evidence shows that the OMB directive claims are only in name and could have been issued simply to defeat the jurisdiction of the court. “I wrote.
On February 10, McConnell ruled that the administration has not yet complied with his orders. The administration must “end a moratorium on federal funds immediately,” he wrote.
Judge's Pet Project Big Budget
However, as the AFL reported, McConnell has been on the board of Rhode Island Anti-Homeless Crossroads for 18 years and is still “honorary chairman.”
“A review of the required disclosure form for the AFL has stated that since Judge McConnell became vice-chairman of the Crossroads Rhode Island Commission in 2009, the organization has received more than $176.6 million in government funding. It's clear (accounting by the end of 2023),” AFL explained X.
This year, Rhode Island's government records show that Crossroads Rhode Island has already received just under $2.9 million in 2025 to provide a variety of programs and services to one of the plaintiffs, Rhode Island. is shown.
The total costumes since McConnell joined the board is $128 million.
However, when McConnell opposed the Trump administration and demanded federal taxpayers continue to fund Rhode Island, he also added continued funding to his pet “nonprofit.” It appears they requested it,” the AFL reported.
According to the AFL, federal law requires judges to reject himself from the case if his fairness “may be reasonably questioned.” Similarly, the law requires that one be disqualified if the judge is a trustee or if he has other interests that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceedings. “The same goes for Canon 2A, a federal Judicial Ethics Act.
And as a member of the Crossroads board, McConnell was appropriately responsible for the nonprofit of law in Rhode Island. But he also has his responsibility as a judge.
Continuous AFL:
As the documents suggest, Judge McConnell is the leader of Crossroad Rhode Island, and as the documents suggest, he knows that Crossroad Rhode Island will benefit from his ruling against federal taxpayers. If he should have known if he was, he should have known. He should have fully disclosed this federally funded entanglement with the organisation, and apparently rejected himself on the matter.
He didn't do these things.
Now it appears that he should quickly vacate his TRO and reject himself quickly from this incident without delay in complying with his ethical obligations.
Face the blast each
McConnell, the left wing of the Crackpot, also calls Trump “tyrant,” reported Natalie Winters, co-host of Steve Bannons' War Room Podcast. Winters posted a video of McConnell's crazy rant.
As New American Veronica Kirilenko reported today, McConnell and the other far-left judges face the bluff each in the US House of Representatives.
Reposting Winter, Georgia's GOP representative Andrew Clyde writes that he will draft an article on the ammo each against the left and right McConnell.
“He is a partisan activist who arms the judicial system to stop the freeze on President Trump's fundraising, stopping the freeze on awakened and useless government spending,” Clyde wrote. “We must end this abusive overreach. Stay tuned.”