Image: Todd Blanche proposed the compensation fund before his confirmation hearing for US attorney general, then dropped it after bipartisan outcry. Photograph: Samuel Corum/EPA

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to reveal who set up the structure of a controversial $1.8bn “anti-weaponization fund” to recompense victims of political lawfare that was reportedly dropped by the justice department last month.

The US magistrate judge Ivan Davis for eastern district of Virginia issued the order compelling discovery materials from the government as part of a lawsuit brought by the Democracy Forward non-profit on behalf of plaintiffs including a fired prosecutor and a college professor acquitted of assaulting federal agents at a protest against an immigration raid in California…”

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