Filed Date: June 1, 2026
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[This summary is temporary while we research the case]. On June 1, 2026, two former federal prosecutors who served in the Capitol Siege Section of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia (USAO-DC) and prosecuted individuals involved in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, filed this suit in the District of the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs—one who served as Senior Trial Counsel and was fired in June 2025, and another who served as Deputy Chief of the Section and resigned under pressure in March 2025—alleged they suffered professional and personal harm after the Department of Justice (DOJ) branded the January 6 prosecutions as political in nature. Defendants included the Acting Attorney General, Associate Attorney General, Secretary of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Chief Executive Officer, the DOJ, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the IRS.
The complaint focused on the creation of an "Anti-Weaponization Fund," capitalized at $1,776,000,000, intended to compensate individuals alleging harm from government "weaponization," including January 6 insurrectionists. The plaintiffs asserted nine causes of action under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the Constitution, alleging that the Fund violates the Appropriations Clause, the Spending Clause, the Appointments Clause, the separation of powers, the First Amendment, and the Fourteenth Amendment's prohibition on paying debts incurred in aid of insurrection, and they sought declaratory relief, vacatur, injunctive relief, and attorneys' fees.
The case was assigned to Judge Richard J. Leon.
Summary Authors
(6/7/2026)
For PACER's information on parties and their attorneys, see: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73424459/parties/gordon-v-blanche/
Leon, Richard J. (District of Columbia)
Eisen, Norman Larry (District of Columbia)
Hemminger, Lindsay (District of Columbia)
Kovacs-Goodman, Jacob (District of Columbia)
Zelinsky, Nathaniel Avi (District of Columbia)
See docket on RECAP: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73424459/gordon-v-blanche/
Last updated June 8, 2026, 3:07 a.m.
State / Territory:
Case Type(s):
Public Benefits/Government Services
Special Collection(s):
Trump Administration 2.0: Challenges to the Government
Key Dates
Filing Date: June 1, 2026
Case Details
Other Dockets:
District of District of Columbia 1:26-cv-01907
Case Summary of Gordon v. Blanche, Civil Rights Litig. Clearinghouse, https://clearinghouse.net/case/48196/ (last updated 6/7/2026).