A federal judge has tentatively prohibited the Trump administration from ending an agency supporting libraries across the United States.
Richard Leon, a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, ruled on May 1 that the administration could not terminate funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
“Plaintiffs have established that the grant terminations, loss of access to IMLS expertise and services, and loss of access to IMLS data have forced libraries to end programs midstream, fire employees and, in some cases, completely shutter,” he wrote in his decision. “These are not merely economic harms.”…