AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey and a coalition of 20 other state attorneys general scored a legal victory Thursday in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s effort to tie federal funding to state cooperation with immigration enforcement.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island granted a motion for summary judgment in the case, ruling that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) violated the Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act by conditioning disaster preparedness and anti-terrorism funds on states’ agreement to assist in federal immigration enforcement.

“The federal government continues to use threats of withholding grants—this time ones slated for disaster relief and anti-te

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