Florida judge says Trump’s $10 billion IRS lawsuit was filed for an improper purpose, refers lawyer to Florida bar

According to CNBC, a Florida federal judge said in an order Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service for an “improper purpose,” citing an effort to create the appearance of “judicial legitimacy” for a controversial settlement with the Justice Department that briefly led to the creation of a $1.8 billion fund to compensate purported victims of prosecutorial misconduct. Judge Kathleen Williams referred Trump’s lawyer in the case, Alejandro Brito, to the Florida bar for possible discipline and ordered that a copy of her ruling be mailed to the State Bar of New York, where Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is a member, and to the District of Columbia Bar, where Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward is a member. A spokesman for Trump’s legal team said the IRS wrongly allowed a politically motivated employee to leak private information about Trump, his family, and the Trump Organization to The New York Times, ProPublica and other outlets.