A federal judge in Washington on Thursday declined to immediately block a Trump administration rule that rescinded funding to a refugee resettlement program, after a major Catholic organization challenged the plan in a lawsuit this week.
Judge Trevor McFadden denied U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB’s) request for a temporary restraining order that would have restored the funding but called his ruling “very tentative.”
“A temporary restraining order is an extraordinary remedy that should be granted sparingly,” he said in a hearing on Thursday.
McFadden scheduled another hearing for next week on the USCCB’s separate request for a preliminary injunction, which would also block the administration’s pause in program funding. He also ordered the two sides to have a mediation session with a federal magistrate judge next week….