{"id":780,"date":"2026-06-05T22:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=780"},"modified":"2026-06-05T22:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:41:17","slug":"justice-department-urges-judge-not-to-block-anti-weaponization-fund-that-it-says-is-already-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department urges judge not to block \u2018anti-weaponization\u2019 fund that it says is already dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 The Justice Department told a federal judge that even though the Trump administration\u2019s $1.8 billion \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund is \u201cnot going forward,\u201d it still opposes the court taking any action to block the initiative on a more permanent basis.<\/p>

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In a , Justice Department attorney Andrew Block and other DOJ representatives said that no money had been transferred to the fund and that no members of the five-person panel tasked with making decisions about distributing the funds had been appointed.<\/p>

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\u201cThis is a rare case that is simultaneously moot and premature,\u201d they wrote. \u201cOne of the reasons Plaintiffs were forced to speculate so much about how the Fund would operate is because so little had happened when they sued.\u201d<\/p>

The Trump administration argued that the plaintiffs who brought the lawsuit \u2014 including a fired Jan. 6 prosecutor \u2014 lacked standing to bring the case because they can\u2019t show they were injured by the fund\u2019s existence.<\/p>

\u201cNo Members were appointed. No claims procedures were established. No claims were formally submitted, received, adjudicated, granted, or denied,\u201d they wrote. The fund was designed to compensate people who say they \u201csuffered weaponization and lawfare.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cThe United States thus opposes Plaintiffs\u2019 request for relief on justiciability and other grounds \u2014 not because the Fund will continue (it will not), but to protect the government\u2019s institutional interests in the proper application of Article III limitations on judicial review,\u201d the DOJ added.<\/p>

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