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BALTIMORE, MD – Attorney General Anthony G. Brown today secured a permanent injunction from the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island blocking the Trump administration’s effort to unlawfully impose immigration enforcement requirements on billions of dollars in annual U.S. Department of Transportation funding. The final ruling follows multistate litigation filed by Attorney General Brown and the coalition and a preliminary injunction. In issuing a permanent injunction, the Court found that the Trump administration has “blatantly overstepped their statutory authority, violated the APA, and transgressed well-settled constitutional limitations on federal funding conditions. The Constitution demands the Court set aside this lawless behavior.”
“Marylanders depend on safe roads, reliable buses, and functioning bridges to get to work, school, and home. But the Trump Administration unlawfully jeopardized these critical pieces of infrastructure by threatening to withhold funding unless we bent to their political demands,” said Attorney General Brown. “This ruling ensures transportation funding stays focused on transportation, not on advancing a political agenda.”
Maryland receives more than $1 billion in funding from the Department of Transportation each year to support and maintain the roads, highways, railways, airways, and bridges that connect our communities and carry our residents to their workplaces and their homes. This includes funding to maintain and build highways. It also includes funding for transit systems in urban and rural communities across the state – including buses, subways, light rail, commuter rail, trolleys, and ferries. The purpose of this funding is not in any way connected to immigration enforcement.
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