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华盛顿—— 两党两名参议员周四敦促联邦法院继续阻止司法部推进其17亿美元的“反武器化基金”，警告该基金对宪法秩序构成“直接且致命的威胁”，并指出该基金旨在向参与2021年1月6日国会山骚乱的人员支付赔偿。
参议员比尔·卡西迪（路易斯安那州共和党人）和科里·布克（新泽西州民主党人）在提交给弗吉尼亚州东部联邦法院的法庭之友意见书中表达了对该基金的反对。该法院一名法官上周已临时叫停司法部推进该计划的所有行动，包括审理索赔或发放资金，同时考虑是否发布更长期的禁令。
在这份文件中，参议员们表示法官应维持禁令，并最终支持挑战该基金的原告方，其中包括一名曾参与1月6日相关案件审理的前联邦检察官。
卡西迪和布克写道：“反武器化基金对我们的宪法秩序和国会的权威构成了直接且致命的威胁。”“事实上，除其他目的外，该基金旨在补偿在1月6日袭击美国国会大厦的叛乱者。该基金的存在直击国会权威和我们宪法秩序的核心。”
参议员们称该基金违反了美国宪法的拨款条款、拨款条款和任命条款。
在意见书中，他们表示“谨此敦促法院认识到，本次诉讼的利害关系并非仅仅是关于行政部门支出权限或赦免权边界的普通纠纷。这是一个关乎民主政府的机制是否可能被蓄意、明确地用来对抗其本应服务的民主根基的问题。”
司法部上月宣布设立反武器化基金，作为解决前总统特朗普1月针对国税局提起的民事诉讼的和解方案，该诉讼源于一名前政府承包商泄露特朗普的纳税申报单。据司法部称，这笔17亿美元的基金旨在“提供一套系统程序，以审理和纠正那些遭受武器化政治迫害和法律诉讼的人的索赔”。
该和解方案赋予总检察长任命的五人分配赔偿款的权力。司法部未具体说明哪些人可以从该基金中获益，但在该基金宣布后不久，多名因1月6日国会山骚乱被定罪的人员和特朗普盟友就表示计划申请救济。
两党参议员迅速对该计划提出反对，尤其担心参与1月6日国会山袭击的人员可能获得资金。该基金险些通过预算和解程序拖垮一项为移民海关执法局和边境巡逻队提供700亿美元资金的拨款法案。参议院周四就推进该立法进行了会议，尽管民主党人和部分共和党人预计将发起旨在限制该基金的投票。
卡西迪近期在初选中输给了特朗普支持的对手，他是对反武器化基金表示反对的共和党参议员之一。
在强烈反对声中，司法部表示将暂停该计划的推进，并遵守法院的临时裁决。代理司法部长托德·布兰奇周二还告诉众议院委员会，政府“不会推进该基金”，但拒绝承诺将此写入书面文件。
尽管如此，布兰奇的保证，尤其是结合特朗普继续为该计划辩护的情况，几乎未能缓解持怀疑态度的参议员的担忧。
在提交给法院的文件中，布克和卡西迪辩称，“反武器化”计划是绕过国会财政权和参议院在总统任命方面的咨询与同意权的“迂回手段”。他们表示，该基金“有可能向1月6日骚乱者支付赔偿，其中许多人在特朗普重返白宫的第一天就获得了赦免”，这对我们的宪政民主构成了威胁。
“无论行政部门是否有权赦免这些被告，主动动用公共资金对他们进行赔偿的进一步举措，都将不予以惩罚的决定转变为宣称该行为本身是合法且值得补救的，”卡西迪和布克写道。“这一转变的严重性怎么强调都不为过。”
两名参议员将该基金描述为“蓄意将叛乱者重塑为受害者，将合法起诉污蔑为政治迫害”的阴谋的一部分。
“故意动用公共资金，违反宪法和国家法律，补偿这些肇事者，就是利用民主政府的机制来补贴对该国最基本治理程序的攻击，”参议员们说道。
针对“反武器化”基金的投票即将到来
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共和党人会加入民主党人投票反对司法部“反武器化”基金吗？
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Bipartisan Senate duo urges court to maintain block on DOJ fund, calling it a “dire threat” to Constitution
2026-06-04T15:58:00-0400 / CBS News
Washington— A bipartisan pair of senators urged a federal court Thursday to continue blocking the Justice Department from moving forward with its $1.7 billion “anti-weaponization fund,” warning that it is an “immediate and dire threat” to the constitutional order and arguing it is designed to provide payouts to people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Sens. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, and Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat, raised their objections to the fund in a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the court in eastern Virginia. A judge there temporarily blocked the Justice Department last week from taking any action regarding the program, including considering claims or disbursing funds, while she considers whether to grant longer-lasting relief.
In their filing, the senators said the judge should maintain her injunction and ultimately rule in favor of the plaintiffs challenging the fund, which include a former federal prosecutor who worked on Jan. 6-related cases.
“The Anti-Weaponization Fund presents an immediate and dire threat to our constitutional order and the authority of Congress,” Cassidy and Booker wrote. “Indeed, among other purposes, the Fund is designed to compensate the insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. The existence of the Fund strikes at the core of Congressional authority and our Constitutional order.”
The senators said that the fund violates the Constitution’s Spending, Appropriations and Appointments Clauses.
In their brief, they said they “respectfully urge this Court to recognize that what is at stake in this litigation is not an ordinary dispute about executive spending authority or the boundaries of the clemency power. It is a question of whether the machinery of democratic government may be turned, by design and with explicit intent, against the democratic foundations it exists to serve.”
The Justice Department announced the anti-weaponization fund last month as part of a deal to settle a civil lawsuit President Trump filed against the IRS in January over the leak of his tax returns by a former government contractor. The $1.7 billion fund aims to “provide a systematic process to hear and redress claims of others who suffered weaponization and lawfare,” according to the Justice Department.
The settlement gives five people who are appointed by the attorney general the authority to distribute payouts. The Justice Department did not specify who could benefit from the fund, but shortly after it was announced, several people convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack and Trump allies said they planned to apply for relief.
Republican and Democratic senators swiftly objected to the program, particularly because of concerns that people involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol assault could be awarded money. The fund threatened to derail a $70 billion package to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol through a process known as reconciliation. The Senate on Thursday convened to move forward with the legislation, though Democrats and some Republicans are expected to force votes aimed at limiting the fund.
Cassidy, who recently lost his primary election to an opponent backed by Mr. Trump, is among the GOP senators who have expressed issues with the anti-weaponization fund.
Amid the backlash, the Justice Department said it would stop work on the program and comply with the court’s temporary decision. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche also told a House committee Tuesday that the administration is “not moving forward with the fund,” but would not commit to putting it in writing.
Still, Blanche’s assurances, particularly when coupled with Mr. Trump’s continued defense of the program, have done little to assuage skeptical senators.
In their court filing, Booker and Cassidy argued the “anti-weaponization” program is an “end-run” around Congress’s power of the purse and the Senate’s advise and consent role in presidential appointments. They said the fund “presents a threat to our constitutional democracy” by potentially providing payments to Jan. 6 rioters, many of whom were pardoned by Mr. Trump on his first day back in the White House.
“Regardless of the Executive Branch’s authority to extend clemency to those defendants, the further step of affirmatively compensating them from public funds transforms a decision not to punish into a declaration that the conduct itself was legitimate and deserving of remedy,” Cassidy and Booker wrote. “The gravity of that transformation cannot be overstated.”
The two senators framed the fund as part of a “scheme deliberately designed to recast insurrectionists” as victims and “legitimate prosecutions as persecution.”
“To deliberately deploy public funds, in violation of the Constitution and the laws of this nation, to compensate these perpetrators is to use the machinery of democratic government to subsidize an attack on that government’s most fundamental processes,” the senators said.
Vote against “anti-weaponization” fund coming
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/will-republicans-join-democrats-in-vote-against-doj-anti-weaponization-fund/
Will Republicans join Democrats in vote against DOJ “anti-weaponization” fund?
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