U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield denied the federal government's request to pause a ruling that disqualified acting federal prosecutor John Sarcone III and blocked his subpoenas against New York Attorney General Letitia James,

U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman ruled that the U.S. Transportation Department lacked the authority to rescind approval of the $9 toll.

The federal judge, appointed by President Trump, wrote the decision to try to end the program was “arbitrary and capricious."

Albany, N.Y. — A federal judge refused Wednesday to pause her ruling that the top federal prosecutor for much of Upstate New York is unlawfully in his job. Senior U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield ruled earlier this year that John Sarcone III,

The case is mostly moot, a federal judge said, because the administration has resumed the flow of more than $200 million in funding that it had temporarily stopped.