Courting a Guarantee

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche testifying before the House Appropriations Committee on June 2. Allison Robbert/AP Photo

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Donald Trump’s administration has one week to provide a written guarantee that his “anti-weaponization” fund is dead. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche testified before Congress that the fund was scrapped — but had declined to put that in writing.

Judge Leonie M. Brinkema, a Bill Clinton appointee, indefinitely barred movement on the fund and said she’d likely drop the case if the government files a “clear, unambiguous” declaration that the fund was permanently canceled before a Friday deadline.