The Malignant Fascist's $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund for insurrectionists, cop assaulters, and other assorted MAGAt cronies is being challenged by some heavyweight jurists:
A group of 35 former federal judges from across the country asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to reopen President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and U.S. Department of the Treasury on Wednesday.
In their motion to set aside Trump’s voluntary dismissal of the case, the judges accuse the Trump administration of corrupting the judicial process by announcing a “settlement agreement” that was never brought before a judge or filed in the case.
“Movants are filing this motion because they have dedicated their professional lives to the administration of justice,” the judges wrote in their filing.
“The purported ‘settlement’ that the parties never placed before this court raises profound questions about the parties’ candor toward the court and manipulation of the judicial system, which threatens to undermine confidence in the administration of justice,” they added.
The judges asked U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams to reopen the case so the court can inquire into whether the president fraudulently purported to have “settled” the case.
That “settlement” includes $1.776 billion from the Treasury to be handed out by a Trump-controlled, five-person commission to people wrongfully targeted by the government.
“Doing so will allow judicial review of the extraordinary — and historically unprecedented — circumstances presented by this litigation and by the collusive ‘settlement’ that invokes this litigation as the legal justification for its terms,” the judges wrote.
“The court was deceived,” they added.
Shortly after Trump’s suit was ended on May 18, the Justice Department announced its “settlement agreement” establishing an “anti-weaponization fund.”...
In addition,
Just before Trump dropped his lawsuit, 93 Democrats in the U.S. House filed their own brief, accusing the president of “undermining the Constitution by bringing this collusive suit.” Watchdog groups and outside lawyers also filed briefs in the case, challenging Trump’s lawsuit as a conflict of interest because the president oversees the IRS.
Last week, a pair of former police officers who clashed with rioters on Jan. 6, 2021, sued to block the anti-weaponization fund, claiming the money will go to Jan. 6 defendants and result in the “public financing of paramilitary organizations” in the country...
The slush fund is also highly unpopular across the political spectrum with folks whose tax dollars would be paying for yet another MF travesty:
A poll by the Economist/YouGov found a majority of Republicans (52%) and a plurality of MAGA supporters (45%) oppose the fund set up to offer payouts to people who believe they’ve been wronged by the government.
Only 24% of Republicans support it and 24% aren’t sure, while 32% of MAGA Republicans support the fund and 24% aren’t sure.
The numbers are similar for Democrats: 25% support the fund, 56% oppose it and 19% aren’t sure (the poll of 1,520 U.S. adults was conducted May 22-26 and has a margin of error of 3.6).
Overall, 49% of respondents oppose the fund, 24% support it, and 27% aren’t sure.
Clearly, this settlement was a brainstorm of the MF since (as a Republican senator put it) it's "stupid on stilts." His paramilitary goons who stormed the Capitol on January 6 shouldn't be counting their chickens just yet.
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