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Judge blocks DOJ 'anti-weaponization' fund for longer, wants guarantee it’s dead
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- Judge Leonie Brinkema gave Blanche and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent a week to submit written sworn declarations that the fund was not going forward, as Blanche recently testified to Congress, MS NOW reported.
- The DOJ announced that the fund was being created as part of a settlement of Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service for the leak of his tax records by an IRS contractor.
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A federal judge in Virginia on Friday granted a longer block against the Department of Justice implementing a "Anti-Weaponization Fund," saying that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's verbal claim that the fund was not going forward was an insufficient guarantee.
Judge Leonie Brinkema gave Blanche and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent a week to submit written sworn declarations that the fund was not going forward, as Blanche recently testified to Congress, MS NOW reported.
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