Overview
- U.S. District Judge Mary S. McElroy in Rhode Island issued a 48-page decision ordering DHS to reinstate previously announced Homeland Security grant allocations.
- A coalition of 12 attorneys general from New York, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia brought the case.
- The challenged reallocations stripped more than $233 million from plaintiff jurisdictions, including over $100 million from New York, about 77% of its expected award.
- McElroy condemned a "wanton" misuse of grant administration and cited the recent Brown University shooting to underscore the funding’s counterterrorism and emergency-response role.
- DHS disputed the decision, signaled it will appeal, and called the ruling "judicial sabotage" that it says undermines public safety.