Team Trump is hammered again by the courts, justifiably so. 
Illegal Business
Judge Leonie M. Brinkema extended the block on the $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund.
Key points from reporting on the hearing
- She ruled the case is not moot despite the administration’s statements that the fund isn’t moving forward.
- Reasons included lack of formal rescission documents, Trump’s public comments, and precedent on “voluntary cessation.”
- The government must submit sworn declarations under penalty of perjury (from senior officials like Acting AG Todd Blanche) within one week confirming the fund is abandoned.
- The injunction continues to bar transferring money into the fund, considering claims, or making disbursements.
- “You think this is lawful business?” the judge asked DOJ lawyers.
Judge Blocks Trump’s $1.776 Billion Slush Fund
I am pleased to report Judge Blocks Trump’s $1.776 Billion Slush Fund
Tearing into the federal government for an explosive 30 minutes, a federal judge in Virginia blocked the Department of Justice from taking any action to create or distribute money from Donald Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund.
“You think this is lawful business?” U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema asked incredulously, referring to the fund.
For the government, the less than half-hour hearing was contentious from the start, and Justice Department attorney Andrew Block received a tough reception from the moment that he registered his appearance on the record.
“You’re a brave man, Mr. Block,” Judge Brinkema told the attorney, who is the deputy for Stanley Woodward, the Justice Department’s third-ranking official and a lawyer representing Trump’s co-defendant in the classified documents case.
Earlier this week, D.C.-based U.S. District Judge Richard Leon declined to block the fund, finding the matter “moot” in light of Blanche’s claim that the fund was dead.
Judge Brinkema, however, recited passages from the transcript of Leon’s hearing and pointed out that Block ducked multiple questions about why Blanche didn’t rescind the legal documents creating the fund.
Noting that two days have passed, Brinkema asked: “Do you have an answer now?”
“No, your honor,” Block replied. “I don’t.”
Brinkema said that she “cannot believe given the significance of this case” that Block wouldn’t find an answer from more senior Justice Department officials.
“You understand that there is a huge gap in this record if we don’t have an answer to this question,” Brinkema said, quickly finding that the matter was “not moot.”
‘Beyond any reasonable doubt’
Unlike Washington, D.C., Brinkema is under the jurisdiction of the Fourth Circuit, where the case Porter v. Clarke held that “voluntary cessation” of allegedly illegal conduct isn’t enough to make a matter moot.
She noted that Trump said he was “disappointed” that the fund wasn’t moving forward, creating a strong incentive to revive it. Noting that the case law requires an “absolute certainty” that the offending conduct has been stopped for a case to be moot, Brinkema found “beyond any reasonable doubt” that the standard hasn’t been satisfied.
Before issuing her order, the judge recited the conclusion of an amicus brief filed by Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), detailing what she noted was their “bipartisan” assessment of the purpose of the fund and the public interest in blocking it.
“To deliberately deploy public funds, in violation of the Constitution and the laws of this nation, to compensate these perpetrators is to use the machinery of democratic government to subsidize an attack on that government’s most fundamental processes,” their friend-of-the-court brief stated. “Congress itself, as both victim and the federal government’s sole appropriating authority, has a compelling institutional interest in ensuring that no public fund is converted into a reward for those who laid siege to it.”
Brinkema gave the government one week to provide a sworn declaration that the $1.776 billion fund has been fully abandoned.
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Generic art dad on facebook reels has a good explanation summing up trumps strategy in general. What i see but havent been able to describe.
Chaos / opportunities / erosion / nudging. How each supports each other and moves in a general direction rather than a specific goal.
The other part was the immunity Trump created for his family. I am assuming that he can pardon his family from future IRS investigations, but did not think he could do that to himself.
It’s a good Republican slush fund.The best kind. Almost good, and it comes with, at most, a moderate level of corruption, and anyway, not all corruption is bad.
By definition in this context all corruption is bad.
The schedule of activities is backing up…
Rep. Carlos Gimenez: “All of the southeastern United States is actually now threatened by Cuba. Cuba has always been a national security threat to the United States … once we finish with Iran, then President Trump is going to turn his attention to Cuba”
Upvoted for truth, not for approval.
Did Trump really think this would fly or is it just cover for other stunts he wants to pull?
Yes.
So, Trump boys are not getting any money from this slush fund?
Sounds like it. But there are probably other ways to get them money.
From this trump won immunity from irs. Also between the pardons and this he is letting those loyal to him know he will do his “best”to get them out of trouble if doing his biding. If he is up held by the courts he will just call the courts corrupt. Still gaining support from his core base.
So many slush funds, including the one funded by the sales of oil stolen from Venezuela and, if all goes to plan, from Iran too. Where to begin?
Keep the good news. Finally, the deranged tyrant is being reigned in by the law and common sense.
You haven’t said whether Trump has an avenue of appeal. As I recall it, there has already been some discussion of ending this nonsense of judges all over the country taking it upon themselves to hinder Trump’s work against corruption.
I think myself that corruption has now gone so far that bayonets are the only solution. You wouldn’t bayonet a woman, of course: you would spank her and send her home.
That is indeed Orwellian, well done!
Do you understand that Orwell wasn’t CHEERING ON corruption and torture: he was warning us against them?
Trump may be making missteps, but he is trying to restore health to society: it is the judges who want to keep corruption and make it worse, because they make their living by handwringing about it. It’s like police forces wringing their hands about illegal drugs, while smoking them themselves.
I’m not denying that they have a culture that excuses all their nonsense, and that there are probably stupid ones who actually believe in their culture. I’m sure there are Christian ministers who believe their own nonsense, too.
You are so full of BS your eyes and hair are brown.
Thanks. My hair was brown before it went grey, but I didn’t know that was the cause of it.
LOL why do you call yourself Orwell but don’t know what Orwellian means?
Have you actually read Orwell?