Congress is best chance to stop Trump 'lawfare' fund, attorneys say
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- Two days after Trump and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the fund's creation, skeptics from across the political spectrum emerged to figure out next steps to challenge its legality.
- Opponents have have various avenues for lawsuits that could delay the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" from making payouts to claimants, or even potentially kill off the fund altogether, the lawyers said.
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Congress will have the best chance in the courts to block a controversial $1.8 billion "lawfare" compensation fund set up by the Department of Justice to settle a lawsuit by President Donald Trump against the Internal Revenue Service, former federal prosecutors told CNBC on Wednesday.
Those attorneys, both now in private practice, said members of Congress have good legal grounds to challenge the use of taxpayer money for the fund, which purportedly will pay people who were unfairly targeted by the DOJ under the Biden administration.