OLYMPIA, WA (MyBellinghamNow.com) – Washington’s attorney general and others are celebrating a court win in the effort to preserve the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

In May, Nick Brown and nearly two dozen other Attorneys General sued the Trump administration in order to stop the dismantling of the HHS.

They had argued that the mass firings within the department and shuttering of programs have prevented the HHS from properly serving the American people.

Now, Rhode Island’s U.S. District Court Judge Melissa DuBose has awarded a preliminary injunction to halt the dismantle. The suit originally argued that the plans would violate the Administrative Procedure Act and the U.S. Constitution.

In her ruling, Judge DuBose said that the HHS’s action was “both arbitrary and capricious as well as contrary to law.”

She did not rule on the constitutionality of the action.