NATIONWIDE —THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS BLOCKED FROM ELIMINATING FOUR FEDERAL AGENCIES that assist small businesses, museums, parties to labor disputes and homeless persons, a federal judge in Rhode Island ruled on Friday, Nov. 21.

The court’s order permanently blocks the administration from implementing an executive order that would eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Minority Business Development Agency, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness. The ruling hands a victory to New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of 20 states, which she and her counterparts in Rhode Island and Hawaii led. It blocks the Trump administration from acting to fulfill the executive order, on the grounds that it is

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