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Slush Fund Update!

I'm sure that readers are as anxious as I am to see how Todd Blanche explains this all away during his confirmation hearings.

David Post | 7.14.2026 9:51 AM

When we last looked at the brilliant Trump/Blanche plan to steal $1.776 billion from US taxpayers and to put that money into the pockets of Trump's hardline supporters, I noted that the case was not going to disappear just because Acting AG Blanche has promised that the DOJ isn't "moving forward" with setting up the Slush Fund. District Judge Williams, you will recall, re-opened the Trump v. IRS case (the one the parties ostensibly "settled") in order to investigate "grievous allegations that [Trump] voluntarily dismissed this litigation solely to avoid judicial scrutiny of a lawsuit that was collusive from the start and was only filed to provide the imprimatur of legality for an unlawful settlement."

Judge Williams has now issued her opinion and order in the case, and it's as damning an indictment of Executive Branch lawlessness as one can imagine. Particularly interesting is the manner in which the "unitary executive theory" ends up biting Trump in the ass.

In ordinary times, of course, this would all be cause for impeachment - another example, as Judge Williams puts it, of "Mr. Trump's pattern of misusing the courts to serve political purposes." Today, however, it barely registers a blip on the legal radar-scope. That is not good news for the country as it celebrates its 250th birthday.

Excerpts from Judge Williams' opinion follow below. Citations omitted; emphases supplied.

The judicial power conferred by the Constitution grants the federal judiciary the right to determine actual controversies arising between adverse litigants, duly instituted in courts of proper jurisdiction. A justiciable controversy must be definite and concrete, touching the legal relations of parties having adverse legal interests. Adverseness is essential to a federal court's ability to adjudicate the merits of a........

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