Harry Litman - Judge Rips Trump's Collusive Lawsuit and Doles Out Sanctions

On Monday, in a blistering fifty-six-page opinion, Judge Kathleen Williams of the Southern District of Florida took apart Trump’s IRS lawsuit root and branch. And with the lawsuit went the thing it was built to launder: a $1.776 billion slush fund and a tax amnesty for the president.

Williams found that the case was a collusive, non-adversarial suit brought for an improper purpose, co-engineered by Trump and the DOJ’s highest officials, including Todd Blanche and #3-in-charge Stanley Woodward.

The decision puts both Blanche, whose confirmation hearing begins tomorrow, and the DOJ as a whole in an extremely tricky position if they want to try to salvage the undeserved, illegal bounties that the fund and the amnesty were designed to secure.

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Trump sued the IRS and the Treasury Department in January 2026, in his personal capacity, over the illegal disclosure of his tax returns by a Booz Allen contractor named Charles Littlejohn.

https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/judge-rips-trumps-collusive-lawsuit