Andrew Duehren

1776, year of our nation's founding.

Exactly, which I do not think is a coincidence, obviously.

But yeah, this is a huge amount of money that will be drawn from an account called the Judgment Fund.

which is basically a pot of money that the Justice Department can use to settle legal claims against the United States.

So anytime the government is sued and they want to settle, they can use money from this fund.

It's not usually quite this much that's taken out of it at a time, but they will be withdrawing money from that account, depositing it in a separate account, which will be controlled by five people appointed by the Attorney General.

And they will consider claims from people who say that they have been victimized by the federal government and pay them for it.

You know, there's a lot that we still don't know and are hoping to find out about this money, including exactly how claims for payment will be evaluated, what...

weaponization means exactly when the Justice Department says that and how they'll decide how much money they should be paid.

We still don't even know who these five people are that will be controlling this money and making these decisions.

And obviously, they'll play a huge role in all of this.

So there are a lot of questions across Washington right now about what this could ultimately look like.

I mean, I think it's safe to say that while the Justice Department does settle other lawsuits, they've never done something quite like this before.

Yeah, so all the Justice Department themselves have said about this are people who are victims of quote-unquote weaponization and quote-unquote lawfare.

But in terms of people who believe that they'll be eligible and people who are excited about this, I mean, one of the main groups...

we've heard from so far are people who were convicted on January 6, 2021, for storming the Capitol and who President Trump previously pardoned.

And there are other similar supporters and political allies of the president who say that under President Obama, the Justice Department, the FBI improperly investigated them basically because they were Trump supporters.

And now this is their opportunity to get money to make them whole from that experience.

But again, there are

all sorts of questions swirling around this.