Then-AG Pam Bondi’s memo laid out that the Justice Department should not use settlements ‘to require payments to nongovernmental, third-party organizations that were neither victims nor parties to the lawsuits’

The new fund could pay claims to the likes of Jan. 6 rioters and other purported victims of “lawfare” by previous administrations.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in announcing the fund in a statement that it was "a lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek…

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s administration created a nearly $1.8 billion fund to settle claims that the justice department improperly targeted his political allies in…