It also claims officers skipped the verbal warnings required under the District's First Amendment Assemblies Act before using force. Blanche's order stated that no board members were ever appointed and no money ever moved. Killing the fund, however, doesn't block rioters from pursuing money the ordinary way: ABC News noted nothing in Blanche's order stops payouts to Jan. 6 participants who go through standard legal claims — like the Florida lawsuit itself. The Florida case, meanwhile, is still sitting in front of the district judge, who now has to decide whether to dismiss it outright, ship it to Washington, or let it move forward over the government's objections. Whichever way the judge rules, it won't settle the bigger political question still hanging over the case — whether the administration eventually finds some other way to compensate Jan. 6 defendants outside a courtroom.