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(300,158 posts)blanched😀
BattleRow
(2,814 posts)Thats what you do with SOME nuts...
FakeNoose
(43,388 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(184,867 posts)Referring Blanche to the bar just before his confirmation hearing makes me smile
Link to tweet
A federal judge NULLIFIES the purported settlement behind Trumps $1.776B slush fund, finding there was never a case or controversy and referring his attorney for possible professional discipline.
Doc https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172.106.0.pdf



malaise
(300,158 posts)This is delish! 😂😂
hlthe2b
(115,493 posts)ChicagoTeamster
(1,585 posts)That can be used to impeach him
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DoBW
(3,444 posts)rip 'em up
Well deserved.
MerryBlooms
(12,683 posts)Perfect ruling. However, prepare for some shitshow to go down. trump gonna.be pissed... Cuba, Iran? Bombs gonna be flying, not ketchup.
Marie Marie
(11,674 posts)for investigation? And yet, there always seems to be a line of people just hoping to work for the Trump Administration, STUPID!!
Bluetus
(3,443 posts)The media landscape is changing quickly. The demographic that still watched "the evening news" of the teevee set is literally dying off. Younger people don't trust the legacy media and don't consume their information through those channels. It is people like Aaron Marnas, Thom Hartmann, TYT, Meidas, many Substack authors, podcasters, and the remaining late night comedians who collectively are delivering the truth.
We should not be losing sleep over CNN and CBS, but instead should be looking for ways to promote the best alternate channels.
republianmushroom
(23,013 posts)This is a way to start.
peggysue2
(12,660 posts)About time these nonsensical and unlawful attempts to grift in broad daylight were winged into the judicial trashcan. Along with the lawyers who are willing to sell their souls and reputations for the Mob Boss squatting in the White House.
Call them out, trash their ongoing attempts to dismantle the rule of law and expose them for what they are: thieves and turncoats posing as legitimate professionals and public servants.
Judge Williams has done just that. Good one on her!
LetMyPeopleVote
(184,867 posts)The president probably thought his $10 billion case against the IRS was over. That was before a federal court found his lawyers acted in bad faith.
A federal judge set out to investigate âgrievous allegationsâ in the Trump-IRS case.
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-07-13T17:37:12.625Z
She apparently did not like what she discovered, concluding that Trump and his lawyers acted âin bad faithâ and filed a civil suit âfor an improper purpose.â
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-irs-settlement-sanctions-lawyers-leaked-tax-returns
A federal judge said Monday that President Donald Trumps lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns was filed for an improper purpose as she referred attorneys for disciplinary actions.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams amounts to a stinging rebuke of the Republican presidents lawsuit, characterizing it as an exercise in self-dealing in which he sued an entity that is effectively under his control.
.....More than a month later, she apparently did not like what she discovered, concluding that Trump and his lawyers acted in bad faith and filed a civil suit for an improper purpose.
The nature of the suit itself and the conduct of the Parties and counsel from its filing make plain that this was an attempt to use the Court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the President and to earmark billions of dollars from American taxpayers to redress grievances not defined in the law, Williams wrote.
The judge also prohibited the parties from even referring to it as a settlement.
Just as notably, as CNBC reported, Williams referred Trumps lawyer in the lawsuit, Alejandro Brito, to the Florida bar for consideration on whether Brito should be disciplined in light of the findings in the new order. The judge also ordered that a copy of her ruling be mailed to the State Bar of New York, of which Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is a member, as well as to the District of Columbia Bar, of which Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward is a member.
I am looking forward to Blanche's confirmation hearing. One of the questions may be to find out if a disbarred attorney can be Attorney General