Judge Mary S. Mcelroy, who has blocked twice the efforts of President Donald Trump to freeze the EPA, the Department of Energy and other subsidies, has a history of Democratic activism.
On Tuesday, the United States District Judge, Mary Mcelroy, issued a court order against the Trump administration, ruling in favor of environmental groups that claim that the President inlote Fose subsidies for projects that fight “reduce, and reduce, and reduce, and reduce, reduce and reduce, and reduce, and reduce, and reduce,
“The agencies do not have unlimited authority to promote the agenda of a president, nor do they have power without restrictions for the hamstrings to perpetuity two statutes approved by the delicious administration of Congress,” Mcelroy ruled.
The Trump administration has said that the Administration has the right to stop financing for subsidies granted to redirect funds to more appropriate projects, and that Rhode Island judge lacked jurisdiction to listen to the case.
The Department of Justice also said that it has a stronger position after the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could cancel millions of dollars in teacher training grants as part of its repression against diversity, equity and inclusion.
However, this is not the first time that Judge Mcelroy has frustrated the efforts of the Trump administration to freeze throughout the government.
At the beginning of April, Mcelroy approved a request from state -state officials in Rhode Island to “temporarily avoid the administration of President Donald Trump to reduce state health subsidies.”
“The damage to the demanding states and the demanding agencies if we cease that … it is clearly irreparable,” Mcelroy said after the arguments of the lawyers representing the state governments and the Department of Human Services and Health of Trump (HHS). The HHS had revoked around $ 11 billion in subsidies to the states.
Mcelroy has had an extensive history of democratic activism, which includes:
- As a high school student, he delivered flyers for the Senate campaign of Julius V. Michaelson in 1982
- In 1984, at the University, he acted as a page for the Rhode Island delegation to the Democratic National Convention
- She served as a volunteer for James E. O’Neil’s campaign for Rhode Island attorney general
- He was a member of Rhode Island Democrats from 1984 to 1986
“I participated in the efforts to encourage young people to register to vote and participate in the political process and support the electoral efforts of Democratic candidates,” he wrote in his Senate questionnaire.
President Barack Obama first nominated Mcelroy to occupy a seat in the United States District Court for the Rhode Island district in 2015. His nomination expired in 2017 and President Trump nominated her in charge in April 2018.
Legislators have moved to stop the influence and control of “judicial insurrectionists”, or the district courts that usurp the role of the executive branch and “frustrated the will of the American people who chose it [President Trump]. “
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), who voted against the confirmation of Mcelroy in the Judicial Committee in 2019, introduced the law of judicial insurrectionists of 2025 in March to establish “a panel of three judges to quickly review the orders and branch of the equations.
Lee said in a statement at that time:
The United States government cannot work if the legitimate orders of our commander in chief can be annulled by a single judge of the District Court. They have presumed that they run the military departments, civil service, foreign aid and RR. HH. Throughout the executive branch, non -constitutional overreach.
He explained: “This legislation will create a judicial panel to accelerate the review of the Supreme Court of this general mandate, preventing the radicals not chosen in the robe sabote the separation of powers.”
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