{"id":587,"date":"2026-09-18T16:15:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=587"},"modified":"2026-09-18T16:15:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:15:42","slug":"judge-questions-whether-anti-weaponization-fund-is-really-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"Judge questions whether &#8216;Anti-Weaponization Fund&#8217; is really dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-09-18\/Getty_JusticeDepartment_091826.jpg\" alt><figcaption>The U.S. Department of Justice Building on Aug. 17, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; A federal judge overseeing a lawsuit against the Justice Department said at a hearing Friday that she remains skeptical that the Trump administration won&#8217;t move forward with improperly compensating allies of President Donald Trump who were prosecuted under the Biden administration, despite the DOJ&#8217;s <span class=\"s1\">repeated statements<\/span> that the $1.8 billion &#8220;Anti-Weaponization Fund&#8221; is dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice Building on Aug. 17, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) &#8212; A federal judge overseeing a lawsuit against the Justice Department said at a hearing Friday that she remains skeptical that the Trump administration won&#8217;t move forward with improperly compensating allies of President Donald Trump who were prosecuted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}