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By now, Donald Trump has probably grown accustomed to legal setbacks in court, though his case against the IRS has started to backfire in ways the president didn\u2019t see coming. The Associated Press reported:<\/p>\n

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A federal judge said Monday that President Donald Trump\u2019s lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns was filed for an \u201cimproper purpose\u201d as she referred attorneys for disciplinary actions.<\/p>\n

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams amounts to a stinging rebuke of the Republican president\u2019s lawsuit, characterizing it as an exercise in self-dealing in which he sued an entity that is effectively under his control.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The basic details of Trump\u2019s IRS lawsuit are likely familiar: During his first term, a contractor leaked his tax returns, and six years later, the president has filed suit against the tax agency, saying he\u2019s entitled to $10 billion in taxpayer funds.<\/p>\n

In May, he voluntarily withdrew his own litigation, and soon afterward, the administration unveiled his reward for having done so: a compensation fund worth $1.766 billion, which was quickly condemned by members of both parties as a \u201cslush fund\u201d that would be used to benefit the White House\u2019s political allies.<\/p>\n

That bipartisan pushback appears to have forced the president to back off his plans for the fund. And at that point, the case appeared to have run its course: Trump filed a rather preposterous $10 billion lawsuit against his own administration; he then abandoned that case before it could be fully adjudicated; and that was that.<\/p>\n

Except, it wasn\u2019t quite that simple, and one of the underlying legal problems persisted: The federal judge in the case, responding to a request filed by 35 former federal judges calling on her to reopen the case, raised serious concerns in late May, ordering Trump and his lawyers to address allegations that he committed fraud on the court.<\/p>\n

In a , Williams said she intended to investigate \u201cgrievous allegations\u201d that the hasty deal to resolve the dubious case was \u201cpremised on deception.\u201d (This same judge, as recently as late April, expressed skepticism about the propriety of the case, since it appeared the president was, for all intents and purposes, both the plaintiff and the defendant.)<\/p>\n

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More than a month later, she apparently , concluding that Trump and his lawyers acted \u201cin bad faith\u201d and filed a civil suit \u201cfor an improper purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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,\u201d Williams wrote.<\/p>\n

The judge also prohibited the parties from even referring to it as a \u201csettlement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just as notably, as CNBC reported, Williams \u201creferred Trump\u2019s 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.\u201d The judge also \u201cordered 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

The developments come just two days before Blanche, Trump\u2019s choice to serve as attorney general, is scheduled to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee for a confirmation hearing.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Republican\u2019s legal team said in a written statement, \u201cThe IRS wrongly allowed a rogue, politically-motivated employee to leak private and confidential information about President Trump, his family, and the Trump Organization to the New York Times, ProPublica and other left-wing news outlets, which was then illegally released to millions of people. President Trump continues to hold those who wrong America and Americans accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement made no effort to address allegations of professional misconduct or the fact that Trump\u2019s lawyers just received a brutal smackdown in court.<\/p>\n

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This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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