Trump’s Attorney General said he was holding off on the fund that Trump wants to use to pay off those who ask for money for reimbursement for being held responsible;e for their illegal actions on the Jan. 6 , 2021…
But?
Media reports have had the Att. Gen. Blanche ‘s boss, President Trump, was NOT gonna give up the effort to use taxpayers money to reward those trying to disrupt the certification of the 2020 Presidential Election…
So?
After expressing no confidence in Blanche?
The Judge HAS blocked the funds’ operation….
A federal judge on Friday indefinitely blocked President Donald Trump’s proposed $1.8 billion payout fund, which is still being challenged in court despite Justice Department officials claiming the effort is dead.
At a hearing in Virginia federal court, U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema issued a preliminary injunction blocking the fund, which the administration sought to create for those who claim they were improperly investigated by the government. She forcefully rejected the government’s arguments that the case was moot, citing Trump’s praising of the idea and acting attorney general Todd Blanche’s unwillingness to say under the penalty of perjury that the administration will not try to stand it up in the future.
She gave the government one week to enter a “clear, unambiguous” declaration in the court record that the fund is dead, at which time she will consider dismissing the case.
A Justice Department attorney argued that he, as an officer of the court, had put in a court filing to Brinkema that the fund has “not been set up and is now not going forward.” But Brinkema said that wasn’t sufficient, making clear that the declaration she desired needed to be signed by the treasury secretary and Blanche for her to see the government’s claim the fund was dead as legitimate.
“We don’t have the kind of absolute certainty that this fund wouldn’t rear its head” again, she said, adding later that the “public interest in this case is very, very strong in my view.”…
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