Judge says lawsuit against Trump DOJ 'anti-weaponization' fund will proceed
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- Blanche created the fund as part of a settlement of Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over a leak of his tax records.
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A federal judge on Thursday said a lawsuit challenging the Department of Justice's creation of a $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund will proceed, citing the DOJ's refusal to confirm in writing to her that the fund is dead, as the department has verbally said it is.
Judge Leonie Brinkema, in an order in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, said that if the DOJ had given her a "short, written declaration under the penalty of perjury" that the fund is actually dead, that would have been enough to dismiss the suit as moot.