Trump State Department moves to yank Catholic bishops lawsuit away from judge

A judge on Friday was met with a new complication in a lawsuit brought by U.S. Catholic bishops after the State Department abruptly terminated a $65 million agreement with them related to refugee resettlement.

Judge Trevor McFadden said during a hearing in Washington, D.C., that he would wait to issue a ruling on the bishops’ request for an injunction against the State Department and instead said both parties should revise their arguments by next week, in part so that they could factor in the State Department’s sudden cancelation of its agreement.