Anthony G. Brown: “It is time to update this program. It is a 30-year-old formula.”

Maryland and Prince George’s County committed more than a decade of work to earn the FBI headquarters and pledged hundreds of millions of dollars,

For decades, the remains of hundreds of Black children have lain in unmarked graves on the grounds of a shuttered institution that was supposed to keep them safe.

This ruling makes clear that the federal government cannot impose unlawful financial barriers that make it harder to recruit the teachers, doctors, researchers, nurses, and other essential workers Marylanders rely on every day.

Such bans deny young people the simple joy of playing alongside their peers and participating fully in one of the most meaningful parts of childhood.