“Defendants’ wanton abuse of their role in #federal grant administration is particularly troublesome given the fact that they have been entrusted with a most solemn duty: safeguarding our nation & its citizens,” McElroy wrote. “While the intricacies of administrative #law & the terms & conditions on federal grants may seem abstract to some, the #funding at issue here supports vital #counterterrorism & law enforcement programs.”
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McElroy notably cited the recent #BrownUniversity attack, where a gunman killed 2 students & injured 9 others, as an event where the $1 billion federal program would be vital in responding to such a tragedy.
“To hold hostage #funding for programs like these based solely on what appear to be defendants’ #political whims is unconscionable &, at least here, #unlawful,” the Rhode Island-based judge wrote in her ruling, issued little more than a week after the Brown shooting.