Judge: Trump sought to 'manipulate the judicial process' with his IRS lawsuit and attempted $1.8B fund

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9. I can't believe there are lawyers who continue to risk disbarment for this guy...

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...when you already have a plethora who've already been disbarred because of him. It's got to be a freaking cult.

ETA: still reading the decision, but the judge hoists Trump and, by extension the Supreme Court, on their own petard with this except...

Indeed, just recently, the Supreme Court cited Myers v. United States, 272 U.S. 52, 133 (1926) as a 'landmark decisio' and 'perhaps our best word on the subject' of whether the President could remove subordinates in government service at will. Trump v. Slaughter, 609 U.S. __, slip op. at 16 (2026). Finding that he could, the majority ruled that '[s]ubordinates who exercise the President’s power are subject to removal by him. Then, and only then, can they remain accountable to the President, and the President to the people'. '[T]hese officers exercise the President’s power, not their own, and thus must be responsible to him' Id.

ETAM: I hate to keep editing this post on the fly, but this portion is just too good...

Plaintiffs cannot argue before the Supreme Court that Executive Branch actors 'unquestionably exercise[] executive power, and must therefore be controlled by the Chief Executive[,]' Slaughter, 609 U.S. at 27, and then here, argue that the Parties are sufficiently adverse to establish an actual case or controversy.