by R. Cort Kirkwood
The far-left federal judge who blocked President Donald Trump’s federal freeze on grants is on the board of directors of a nonprofit that has collected $128 million in taxpayer money during the nearly two decades years the judge has been on the board.
John McConnell, chief judge for the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island and appointed by former President Barack Obama, had to have known the outfit, Crossroads Rhode Island, would benefit from his ruling, America First Legal reported in a long X thread.
That means the judge has trespassed the federal law and the canon of judicial ethics by not recusing himself from the case, which began when Blue States and Washington, D.C., sued to stop the freeze.
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