A coalition of Donald Trump’s critics, including a fired prosecutor and a college professor acquitted of assaulting federal agents at a protest, sued Friday to block payouts from a new $1.776 billion settlement fund for Trump allies claiming to be victims of a weaponized government.
The lawsuit adds fuel to a mounting backlash against the Trump administration’s creation of an “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to resolve the Republican president’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns.
Plaintiffs’ attorneys from the legal advocacy group Democracy Forward are seeking a court order halting the fund’s implementation and preventing the Trump administration from disbursing any payouts from it. The federal suit, filed in Alexandria, Virginia, claims there is no legal basis or accountability behind the fund.
Just a reminder that it isn’t 1.8 billion. The settlement doesn’t have a proce cap.
It’s unlimited, they dont have to reveal who gets the money, Trump has exclusive control over the committee who hands out the payments, and the Trump cartel can’t be investigated for financial crimes.
It will be interesting to how the conservative Justices defend this one.
