Judge blocks the Trump administration from moving FBI headquarters to DC office building
A U.S. judge on Monday blocked plans to move the FBI’s headquarters to a federal office building in Washington, finding that President Donald Trump’s administration illegally tossed out a previously approved plan to build a new…
A U.S. judge has blocked the Trump administration's plan to move the FBI's headquarters to a federal office building in Washington, D.C., ruling that the decision was illegal. The FBI's current headquarters, the J. Edgar Hoover Building, has been in operation since 1975. The decision was made by U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang, an Obama appointee.
Maryland and Prince George's County had spent over a decade and hundreds of millions of dollars preparing the Greenbelt, Maryland site for the FBI headquarters. Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown praised the court's decision to uphold the original plan and return the project to Greenbelt.
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