{"id":23741,"date":"2026-06-06T11:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/doj-confirms-in-court-filing-anti-weaponization-fund-will-not-continue\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T11:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:22:25","slug":"doj-confirms-in-court-filing-anti-weaponization-fund-will-not-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/doj-confirms-in-court-filing-anti-weaponization-fund-will-not-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ confirms in court filing &#8216;anti-weaponization&#8217; fund &#8216;will not&#8217; continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration&rsquo;s nearly $1.8 billion &ldquo;anti-weaponization&rdquo; fund is effectively dead, the Justice Department (DOJ) told a federal court on Friday, while also asking it to reject a challenge brought by a former federal prosecutor and several others. Two DOJ attorneys wrote in a filing in the Eastern District of Virginia that the compensation fund&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5912975-trump-anti-weaponization-fund-dead\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration&rsquo;s nearly $1.8 billion &ldquo;anti-weaponization&rdquo; fund is effectively dead, the Justice Department (DOJ) told a federal court on Friday, while also asking it to reject a challenge brought by a former federal prosecutor and several others. Two DOJ attorneys wrote in a filing in the Eastern District of Virginia that the compensation fund&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}