{"id":3172,"date":"2026-06-19T20:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2026-06-19T20:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:06:16","slug":"doj-rebuffs-judges-request-for-blanche-to-declare-in-court-that-anti-weaponization-fund-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3172","title":{"rendered":"DOJ rebuffs judge\u2019s request for Blanche to declare in court that anti-weaponization fund is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<button><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<span><svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Summary<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<span><svg><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span><svg><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/button><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Justice Department is refusing to provide court declarations from senior officials confirming that a controversial $1.8 billion fund is defunct.<\/li>\n<li>The fund would have compensated people claiming to be victims of government weaponization under prior administrations.<\/li>\n<li>Officials argue that previous congressional testimony and court filings already confirm the fund will not move forward.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<span>AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The Justice Department is rebuffing a judge\u2019s request that it supply a court declaration from senior administration officials that would confirm that the so-called anti-weaponization fund is not moving forward.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3170\">Trump unveils a new presidential airplane<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            In a new court filing Friday, the Justice Department said that the declarations were \u201cunnecessary\u201d and that the judge\u2019s order that the administration file them raises \u201cserious separation of powers concerns.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The case \u2014 playing out on Alexandria, Virginia \u2014 is one of several legal challenges to the controversial $1.8 billion fund, which arose out of a settlement of a legally dubious lawsuit President Donald Trump filed against the IRS. It would have compensated people who claimed to have been victims of government \u201cweaponization\u201d under prior administrations, prompting allegations that it would operate as a slush fund for Trump\u2019s allies.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            As political opposition and legal hurdles mounted, the administration dropped its plans for the fund, and Judge Leonie M. Brinkema, the judge in the Virginia case, indicated she was inclined to rule the legal dispute in her courtroom as moot. But last week, she requested declarations from acting Attorney General Todd Balance, a top deputy of his, Associate Attorney General Stan Woodward, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirming that \u201cthey will not take any action to create or operate the Anti-Weaponization Fund, and that the Anti-Weaponization Fund will not proceed in any manner, or under any name.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3168\">Vance\u2019s threat is the latest sign US could be breaking with Israel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Absent such a submission, the case would move forward to the next steps, she said in the June 12 order.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In the new filing, the Justice Department pointed to Blanche\u2019s testimony to Congress in which he said the fund was \u201cnot going forward, period,\u201d as well as Woodward\u2019s signatory on court filings saying the same.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The Department also argued that there was no \u201cbasis for the court to compel testimony from the Associate Attorney General and two Cabinet members.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3164\">New Jersey congressman absent from Capitol Hill for months set to return June 30<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department is rebuffing a judge\u2019s request that it supply a court declaration from senior administration officials that would confirm that the so-called anti-weaponization fund is not moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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