American judge questions Trump’s $10 billion IRS leak lawsuit

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Golden Finance reports that on April 25, a judge expressed doubts about whether President Trump’s $10 billion privacy lawsuit against the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) under the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Department of the Treasury itself can continue, because Trump effectively controls both sides of the lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to provide a written explanation by May 20 on how she should oversee the case when the Constitution requires the courts to have legitimate “adversarial controversy” jurisdiction in order to hear cases. The judge said that, given that Trump is the sitting president and the opponent he named is an entity led by him, the court currently “is not clear whether the parties have sufficient adversariality” to establish jurisdiction.

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