A federal judge has indefinitely blocked the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, extending a temporary halt that was set to expire Friday and giving the administration one week to submit a statement confirming the fund will not move forward.
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia issued a preliminary injunction blocking the fund.
The Justice Department had established the $1.776 billion fund to compensate individuals who say they were harmed by what the administration describes as the “lawfare” and “weaponization” of investigations and criminal cases against them.
