Washington: A US federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's plan to relocate the FBI headquarters to a federal office building in Washington, ruling that the decision violated legal procedures.
The court found that the administration had unlawfully canceled a previously approved plan to build a new FBI headquarters facility near Maryland.
The ruling marks a fresh development in the long-running dispute over the location of the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States' leading law enforcement agency.
During former President Joe Biden's administration, a site in Greenbelt, Maryland, was selected for the construction of a new FBI headquarters. However, the Trump administration later moved to reverse that decision and proposed converting the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington into the agency's new headquarters.
The Reagan Building is located close to the FBI's current headquarters, making it the administration's preferred alternative location.
US District Judge Theodore D. Chuang, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, ruled that the relocation plan did not comply with legal requirements.
The judge has blocked the Trump administration from shifting the FBI headquarters to the Ronald Reagan Building, keeping the future location of the agency's headquarters at the center of a continuing legal and political dispute.
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