Judge blocks the Trump administration from moving FBI headquarters to DC office building

A U.S. judge on Monday halted President Donald Trump's administration's attempt to relocate the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters to a federal office building in Washington, D.C., ruling that the decision was made illegally. The judge, Theodore D. Chuang, found that the administration's move to repurpose the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., instead of the previously approved site in Greenbelt, Maryland, was not in accordance with the law.

Maryland and Prince George's County, where the Maryland site is located, had invested years and millions of dollars into the FBI headquarters project. Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown, a Democrat, expressed relief at the judge's decision, stating that it clears the path back to Greenbelt for the construction of a world-class FBI headquarters.

The current FBI headquarters, known as the J. Edgar Hoover Building, located on Pennsylvania Avenue, has been in operation since 1975.