The Trump administration is currently navigating two significant legal standoffs, one involving the Anti-Weaponization Fund and another centered on the future of the Kennedy Center. In the first instance, the Justice Department on Friday snubbed a federal judge’s demand to swear that a nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund is dead, arguing the request raises “serious separation of powers concerns.”
As reported by The Hill, Judge Leonie Brinkema indefinitely blocked the fund last Friday. Brinkema issued a seven-day deadline for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward to declare under penalty of perjury that it would not move forward “to avoid any further litigation.”
