A federal judge on Monday extended an order blocking the Trump administration from enforcing a sweeping freeze on federal grants, rejecting arguments from the Department of Justice that the case had become moot following the withdrawal of an Office of Management and Budget directive.
U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan, ruling from Washington, D.C., granted a temporary restraining order against the aid freeze, siding with a coalition of nonprofit organizations that claimed they were still unable to access federal funds despite the government’s insistence that the OMB memo was no longer in effect.
The decision follows an administrative stay she issued last…
