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The Anti-Weaponization Fund is built from three primary government documents: the settlement that created the funding source, the Attorney General order that stood the Fund up, and the DOJ press release that announced the program publicly. Each is linked in full below, with the key sections pre-anchored.
The annotations are the project's own commentary. They are visually distinct from document text and are not styled to look like part of the official record.
SA · Primary
Settlement Agreement — President Donald J. Trump v. Internal Revenue Service, No. 1:26-cv-20609
U.S. District Court, S.D. Fla. · 2026-05
Operative text for §§ II.C, V.B, V.C, V.D, VI.B. Held in the project folder. Pin the exact settlement date from the PDF before publishing.
Key anchors
§ II.C
The recital
Labels the conduct the Fund is meant to address. The settlement's illustrative examples all come from one administration. The argument site reads this as recital context, not operative eligibility text. The operative test is § V.C below.
§ V.B
The waiver
Accepting Fund relief waives all other relief, including the right to sue in court. Short and absolute. See /the-catch for what trading away that right means for the Broadview Six.
§ V.C
The operative test
A claimant must assert at least one legal claim. The word is assert, not prove. No party limiter; no partisan requirement. This is the door.
§ V.D
Seven totality factors
Strength of the claim and supporting evidence; the claimant's own actions; actual damages; reasonable attorneys' fees; time in custody; prior relief obtained; plus an open-ended seventh factor ("other factors the Fund deems just and appropriate") that hands the panel discretion.
§ VI.B
Unreviewable
Fund determinations are final. No appeal, arbitration, or judicial review. A wrong decision stays wrong. See /the-catch obstacle #2.
AGO · Primary
Order of the Attorney General implementing the Anti-Weaponization Fund
Office of the Attorney General · 2026-05-19
The implementing order referenced by the settlement. Held in the project folder.
Key anchors
Panel composition
Five members appointed by the Attorney General
The AG's implementing order names the panel structure. The five members are appointed by the Attorney General; the Fund reports confidentially to the Attorney General. Paired with § VI.B, this is the structural-adversity argument on /the-catch.
Process
Claims processing window
The Fund's claims-processing window closes on December 1, 2028, with the remaining balance sweep on January 1, 2029. Beyond that, no further claims are accepted. See /the-fund for the timeline analysis.
DOJ · Primary
Justice Department Announces Anti-Weaponization Fund (Press Release No. 26-512)
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs · 2026-05-18
Existence of the Fund; $1.776B total; Judgment Fund as source; five-member panel; 'no partisan requirements' language; settlement origin. Verified directly 2026-05-22.
Key anchors
Press release
"No partisan requirements"
DOJ's own public announcement of the Fund includes the phrase "no partisan requirements." The site reads this together with § V.C as confirming the operative test is non-partisan on its face. The argument is built from DOJ's own framing.
Press release
$1.776 billion + Judgment Fund source
Names the dollar figure and the funding source (the Treasury Judgment Fund, from the Trump v. IRS settlement). Not appropriated by Congress.
Other documents in the project
The 60-page dismissal-hearing transcript lives at /documents/transcript. The project's own Fund Brief is at /documents/fund-brief. The full source registry, with every citation across the site, is at /documents/sources.