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... U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams accused Trump of having manipulated the court system when he sued a federal agency under his control, bypassing a requirement that parties in a lawsuit must have adverse interests and laying the groundwork for a settlement last spring that granted him immunity from tax audits and created a fund to compensate allies of the president who say they were unjustly persecuted.

Though the practical impacts of the ruling may be limited given the administration's public pronouncements that the so-called $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund has been abandoned, the judge's ruling nonetheless amounts to a scathing rebuke of the Trump administration and resurfaces a politically damaging storyline for Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche just as he prepares to face the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing on Wednesday. ...

@#3

yup.

And today we had the apparent facilitator of that "tool" testifying before Congress for his nomination to be the leader of our Justice.