Dozens of disgruntled federal judges are attempting to interfere in the Trump administration’s disbursement of $1.7 billion to those who were politically targeted by the Biden administration.
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for the feds agreeing to pay out roughly $1.7 billion to everyone wrongly targeted by the Biden administration.
As previously reported, the money will be paid out through the creation of an “Anti-Weaponization Fund” that’ll be managed by a commission. Democrats and their allies have described the fund as a “slush fund.”
An insane level of corruption—even for Trump.
A $1.7 BILLION slush fund for Trump’s hand-picked stooges to hand money to January 6th insurrectionists and his political allies.
Here’s the President’s priority as Americans sell their plasma to afford gas and groceries: https://t.co/wahV5OPEAj
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) May 15, 2026
Included among the Democrats’ allies, it would appear, are a group of 35 former federal judges who filed a motion in court Wednesday seeking to reverse the lawsuit settlement and reopen the whole case.
Why? To block the $1.7 billion from being paid out to victims of the Biden administration. Victims like grandmother Paula “Paulette” Harlow.
Paula Harlow, a 75 year old woman in poor health!
This merciless Biden regime and a “mocking” judge “sentenced her to two years in prison for singing outside a clinic.”
“Let’s call these brave Americans what they really are, persecuted Christians.” pic.twitter.com/WnYeLuVD2A
— Shannon Ford 🇺🇸 (@shannonfordUSA) June 22, 2024
In the court motion, the 35 former judges portrayed themselves as heroic, noble figures in history.
“Movants are filing this motion because they have dedicated their professional lives to the administration of justice,” they claimed.
They continued by alleging that the Trump administration had corrupted the judicial process by establishing the “settlement agreement” without ever first bringing it before a judge.
“The purported ‘settlement’ that the parties never placed before this court raises profound questions about the parties’ candor toward the court and manipulation of the judicial system, which threatens to undermine confidence in the administration of justice,” they wrote.
They continued their filing by requesting that U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams reopen the case so that an inquiry can be made into whether the case was fraudulently settled.
“Doing so will allow judicial review of the extraordinary — and historically unprecedented — circumstances presented by this litigation and by the collusive ‘settlement’ that invokes this litigation as the legal justification for its terms,” the disgruntled judges wrote. “The court was deceived.”
Concluding their ranting filing, the former judges essentially accused the Trump administration of pulling off a scam.
“The parties have used this lawsuit — which was never an adversarial proceeding over which the court even had jurisdiction — as a means to allow a ‘commission’ controlled by the president to dole out $1.776 billion in taxpayer dollars without constitutional or congressional authority to do so, and to confer unlawful private benefits to the president and his family by purportedly prohibiting the United States from prosecuting any and all claims against them,” they wrote.
Critics say the whole complaint is partisan, as are the “partisan Democrats” representing the former judges in court:
35 retired federal judges, using their titles as former judges, filed a nonparty motion to reopen the settled Trump v. IRS case. They are represented by partisan Democrats and are led by Michael Luttig and Nancy Gertner. I’ve seen filings like this, but usually by pro se types pic.twitter.com/NxRKPLDp5O
— Eric W. (@EWess92) May 27, 2026
The former judges aren’t the only folks kvetching about the settlement.
“Three [separate] lawsuits were brought last week in federal courts in Washington, DC, and Virginia seeking to halt the administration from moving forward with implementing its plans for the fund,” according to CNN.
CNN notes that these litigants argue that “the fund is unlawful because it may dole out money to people who participated in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol and finance various paramilitary organizations in the country, and that it violates federal transparency laws, among other things.”
The Trump Department of Justice has fiercely defended the settlement fund, arguing that there are no partisan restrictions preventing, say, Democrats who were targeted by Biden from applying for some of the money.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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