A Manhattan federal judge said that he would not impose sanctions on the Department of Homeland Security for false statements that led government attorneys to retract key arguments they made in support of a Trump-era policy that excluded New York from federal programs intended to expedite international travel.

U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman of the Southern District of New York said Thursday that while the legal defense of the former administration’s decisions with regard to the Trusted Traveler and Global Entry programs was “flawed from its inception,” the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office did not go so far as to use the court for “improper purposes or abuse the judicial process.”

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