“The Court Was Deceived”: 35 Former Federal Judges Accuse Trump Of Deceiving Court In “Anti-Weaponization” Settlement
By Courthouse News Service Photos: Wikimedia Commons (CN) — 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. READ MORE…
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By Courthouse News Service
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(CN) — 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. READ MORE…
