To discourage activist litigation and judicial overreach, government lawyers have been requesting the payment of bonds from litigants seeking to block the Trump administration’s policies, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The requests have not been successful. Federal judges have largely ruled against the government, ordering minimal bonds or no bonds at all, according to the Journal. In one suit, the government requested a $23 million bond, which was denied, the Journal said.

“In a case where the government is alleged to have unlawfully withheld trillions of dollars of previously committed funds to countless recipients, it would defy logic — and contravene the very basis of this opinion — to hold Plaintiffs hostage for the resulting harm,” wrote Judge Loren AliKhan after one request.

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