Judges are getting more comfortable calling out Trump's and the DOJ's cynical ploys
Source: CNN
Judges are getting more comfortable calling out Trump’s and the DOJ’s cynical ploys
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PUBLISHED Jul 14, 2026, 5:00 AM ET
Analysis by Aaron Blake
President Donald Trump’s ill-fated $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund suffered yet another major blow on Monday, with a federal judge delivering a brutal review of the process that led to it.
It’s part of a growing trend of judges saying rather bluntly that Trump and his Justice Department aren’t operating in good faith — and even that they’re misusing the legal process for Trump’s personal and political benefit.
The most recent is US District Judge Kathleen Williams, a Barack Obama nominee whose 56-page opinion is routinely brutal toward Trump and his DOJ’s conduct in the case that produced the now-defunct settlement.
Williams said the settlement — which included the fund that could have given money to violent January 6 defendants and also purported to give Trump amnesty from past tax issues — resulted from a lawsuit that was essentially a pretext.
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