Judge extends court order protecting $33M in MTA anti-terrorism funds

A federal judge extended a temporary order that blocks the Department of Homeland Security from withholding more than $33 million in anti-terrorism funding meant for the MTA, officials said.

The ruling, issued Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, gives the state at least another week, until Oct. 22, to make its case in court. Without the order, the DHS could have allowed the money to…