A federal judge this week put a preliminarily hold on the Trump administration’s potential plans to withhold about $600 million in transportation grant funding from Denver because of the city’s politics.

U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein agreed with Denver and dozens of other cities and counties involved in a lawsuit. She ordered two preliminary injunctions and said the cities are likely to win their case challenging the constitutionality of the administration’s threats.

“One need not conjure the most extreme cases of bridges collapsing and train derailments to understand instinctively that maintaining the health of the systems … is critical,” Rothstein, a federal judge in Seattle, wrote in her Tuesday ruling .

New York City, Denver and 29 other cities, counties,

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