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ALA and AFSCME prepare their case for IMLS

Apr 29 2025

On the eve of an April 30 motion hearing on the future of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, attorneys for the American Library Association and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees have responded to last week’s filing by the defendants in ALA v. Sonderling. The plaintiffs seek a preliminary injunction to a White House executive order that they say takes a “chain-saw approach to federal agencies chartered by Congress of which it does not approve,” IMLS among them. Since the “implementation of the decision to dismantle IMLS is already well along,” they write, the case is “ripe for review.”

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