Norm Eisen and his two dozen allies within the various Lawfare NGO’s have again interceded and temporarily blocked the financial settlement between the IRS/DOJ and Donald Trump, the $1.776 billion anti-Weaponization Fund settlement.
The weaponization fund was established as part of a settlement agreement between Mr. Trump and the Internal Revenue Service to end a civil lawsuit he and his sons filed in January over the illegal leaking of his tax returns by the IRS. While President Trump will receive no benefit from the settlement, under the agreement the fund aims to “provide a systematic process to hear and redress claims of all others who suffered weaponization and lawfare.”
There is zero legal precedent for a non-participant in the settlement to interfere in the terms and conditions of the settlement itself. All outside parties have zero standing to interfere in the settlement and all reasonable legal minds will tell you exactly the same. A Lawfare challenge is futile because taxpayers do not have legal standing to stop the govt from settling lawsuits (see Pigford et al).
In 1923 the Supreme Court said that a taxpayer’s interest in money from the Treasury “is shared with millions of others” and is “comparatively minute and indeterminable.” “If we have an intersection collision with a postal truck and a settlement is negotiated to give $5 million to a family, does anybody have standing to come in and say, ‘the government paid too much in that settlement?’” The answer is no.
However, the law is really not what stands behind the Lawfare approach. Lawfare is a political strategy designed for public consumption that relies upon the media and stupidity of the American populace. Smart, intelligent and reasonable people can see through Lawfare when applied.
(VIA CBS) – Washington — A federal judge temporarily blocked the Justice Department from moving forward with work on the new $1.7+ billion Anti-Weaponization Fund, including making any payouts.
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said in a brief order dated Thursday that the temporary hold allows her time to consider whether to grant longer-term relief sought by a group of plaintiffs who are challenging the new fund, which was announced by the Justice Department earlier this month. (more)
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The judge knows the end of this Lawfare journey will culminate in a Supreme Court ruling in favor of the IRS/DOJ and President Trump. However, the judge needs to retain his relationships, his network, his cocktail party invitations, and therefore goes along with the Lawfare resistance group.
When Christine Blasey Ford was used to try and block the judicial appointment of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, she was questioned about who wrote her letter of complaint from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Ms Ford described the network of former DOJ and FBI officials who guided her as “Beach Friends.”
It is this same group of 20 +/- ‘beach friends’ who operate this Lawfare network, NGO system, aligned law firms, and stimulate hundreds of lawsuits against President Trump with the intention of just being against anything that diminishes their political structures. Lawfare is funded by leftist billionaires and overseas money.
The establishment of a $1.776 billion fund to compensate victims of Lawfare is an afront to the ideological intentions of the ‘Beach Friends’.
