Five organizations filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department seeking to reverse the termination of a swath of department grant funding last month, arguing the decisions were unlawful and unconstitutional.
The complaint filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which seeks class action status to cover other groups in a similar position, asks a judge to take several actions that would block the Justice Department from ending hundreds of millions of dollars in agreements and grants.
The terminated funding affects a wide range of topics, the lawsuit states, including grants related to violence reduction, victims’ services, juvenile justice and child protection.
