The federal agency AmeriCorps must compel the program and its leaders to reinstate former employees, return program participants to service, and restore grants after President Donald Trump’s executive order to dismantle its operations, a federal district judge ruled.
The public interest in maintaining AmeriCorps’ grants and programs is “clear” and outweighs any harm to the Defendants that would result from a wrongfully imposed preliminary injunction, said Judge Matthew J. Maddox of the US District Court for the District of Maryland, granting a preliminary injunction in part brought by 14 nonprofit groups, a local AmeriCorps union, and three “J. Does.”
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