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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe in Miami

Bipartisan group of ex-federal judges challenges Trump’s $1.8bn ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

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Donald Trump speaks to the press before walking to board Marine One as he departs from the South Lawn of the White House on 12 May. Photograph: Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty Images

Dozens of former federal judges have joined the push to thwart Donald Trump’s creation of a $1.776bn “anti-weaponization fund” that would funnel taxpayer dollars to the president’s political allies.

The bipartisan group of 35 judges filed a lawsuit in the southern district of Florida on Wednesday seeking to reopen Trump’s legal case against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over the leaking of his tax information by a whistleblower who was later sentenced to five years in prison.

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