{"id":4804,"date":"2026-06-20T07:34:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/06\/20\/doj-defies-judges-demand-for-written-pledge-on-controversial-anti-weaponization-fund\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T07:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:34:27","slug":"doj-defies-judges-demand-for-written-pledge-on-controversial-anti-weaponization-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/06\/20\/doj-defies-judges-demand-for-written-pledge-on-controversial-anti-weaponization-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Defies Judge’s Demand for Written Pledge on Controversial ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Justice has rejected a federal judge’s demand for a written, sworn declaration that its controversial $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” will not move forward, citing the request as “unnecessary” and raising “separation of powers concerns.” U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema sought formal assurances after deeming prior verbal commitments from Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche insufficient, especially given former President Trump’s public desire for the fund to proceed.<\/p>\n

The fund, intended to compensate purported victims of prosecutorial overreach, has sparked bipartisan criticism over fears it could benefit Trump’s allies, including those involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.<\/p>\n

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The Department of Justice has rejected a federal judge’s demand for a written, sworn declaration that its controversial $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” will not move forward, citing the request as “unnecessary” and raising “separation of powers concerns.” U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema sought formal assurances after deeming prior verbal commitments from Acting Attorney General Todd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.cnbc.com\/image\/2026\/06\/11\/todd_blanche_justice_department.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","rifnote_country-u-s","rifnote_executive-donald-trump","rifnote_executive-scott-bessent","rifnote_executive-todd-blanche"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.cnbc.com\/image\/2026\/06\/11\/todd_blanche_justice_department.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}