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<\/strong><br \/>\n            <span class=\"ai-article-summary__toggle-caret-up\" aria-label=\"Toggle Article Summary\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-ui-caret-up\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M12.478 6.21a.637.637 0 00-.946 0L2.206 16.229c-.225.243-.28.633-.093.91.237.355.7.385.975.089l8.917-9.579 8.878 9.537c.225.243.589.301.847.101a.721.721 0 00.082-1.048L12.478 6.211z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"ai-article-summary__toggle-caret-down\" aria-label=\"Toggle Article Summary\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-ui-caret-down\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M12.478 17.218a.637.637 0 01-.946 0L2.206 7.2c-.225-.242-.28-.632-.093-.91a.613.613 0 01.975-.088l8.917 9.579 8.878-9.538c.225-.242.589-.3.847-.1.33.255.357.752.082 1.048l-9.334 10.027z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n    <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"ai-article-summary__collapsible\">\n<ul class=\"ai-article-summary__items\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<li class=\"ai-article-summary__item\">Thirty-five former federal judges from both parties are asking a Miami court to reopen a lawsuit involving President Trump and the IRS.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ai-article-summary__item\">The retired jurists argue the case was fraudulent and led to an improper settlement creating a controversial $1.776 billion fund.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ai-article-summary__item\">The settlement also shields Trump and his family from future government investigations into potential civil wrongdoing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n            <span class=\"ai-article-summary__disclaimer-text\">AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpokdgrq000x26q909q5g58i@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Nearly three dozen former federal judges appointed by presidents from both parties have joined a growing legal effort to upend the Trump administration\u2019s newly created $1.776 billion fund for people who say they were wrongly targeted by the government in the past.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpokgbjq00023b6r3xwnewdm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The retired jurists are <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172\/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172.63.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">asking a judge in Miami<\/a> to reverse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/18\/politics\/trump-irs-lawsuit-fund-for-allies\">her decision last week<\/a> dismissing an extraordinary lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump, one of his adult sons and the Trump Organization against the Internal Revenue Service that resulted in a settlement through which the controversial fund was created.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpokgbjq00033b6rfry77qm2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The 35 judges say the lawsuit, which had raised questions about whether it was legally sound given the fact that Trump was both a plaintiff and, as president, the head of the Executive Branch, in which the IRS defendants exists, \u201cis itself a fraud on the court.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpokgbjq00043b6r0f5qrapd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The settlement in the case, the former judges say, \u201cwas not, and never will be, legally justified.\u201d They pointed to the fact that the laws invoked by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to establish the \u201cAnti-Weaponization Fund\u201d require \u201cthe existence of a legitimate litigation and not, as here, one that is collusive, feigned, or fraudulent.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpokgbjq00053b6ra9nqjyhs@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            By reopening the case, the judges told US District Judge Kathleen Williams, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, that she can look into whether she \u201cwas deceived, including with respect to the existence of an underlying case or controversy and any purported arms-length negotiations undertaken to resolve it.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpokgbjq00063b6riaqyckmq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Williams was set to look closely at whether had she the authority to oversee the lawsuit at all before she was abruptly informed last week that Trump no longer wanted to pursue it. As she agreed to formally close the case, the judge criticized the way in which the litigation had come to an end, zeroing in on the fact that such issues remained unresolved.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpokgbjq00073b6rdjwdnhjw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Justice Department, she said at the time, had not \u201cfiled any documents ensuring that settlement was appropriate where there was an outstanding question as to whether an actual case or controversy existed.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpokgbjq00083b6rzzqwx6nx@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The coalition of judges accused Trump and the Justice Department, which represents the government in court, of using \u201ca collusive lawsuit\u201d to reach the settlement, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/27\/politics\/donald-trump-insulating-himself-future-investigations\">also includes a provision shielding Trump<\/a>, his family and his business from being investigated by the government in the future over potential civil wrongdoing.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpokgbjq00093b6rmftmo45z@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Among the group of judges are former members of the federal bench from across the ideological spectrum who served on both trial-level courts and appeals courts. 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Bush appointee Ursula Mancusi Ungaro, served for a time alongside Williams.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpokgbjq000a3b6rejh14vo2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Also included is former Judge John Tinder, who was succeeded on a Chicago-based federal appeals court by now-Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and retired Judge Michael Luttig, a vocal Trump critic who was appointed to a Richmond-based appeals court by Bush.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpokgbjq000b3b6rc6f05qla@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe unprecedentedly fraudulent scheme here more than warrants voiding the dismissal,\u201d the judges wrote.\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/video-resource\/instances\/cmpokjukq000r3b6r1dwumh8n@published\" data-component-name=\"video-resource\" data-editable=\"settings\" class=\"video-resource-elevate\" data-fixed-ratio=\"16x9\" data-canonical-url-path=\"\" data-auth-type=\"\" data-card-url=\"\" data-parent-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/video-resource\/instances\/cmpnrym3r0000356pnljmyoij@published\" data-video-id=\"me0ea2b8c9ed683713c925b15e750dd3dacf69579d\" data-media-id=\"me0ea2b8c9ed683713c925b15e750dd3dacf69579d\" data-bolt-id=\"7bde9b6a-fd45-578b-8902-72eba95cf411\" data-live=\"\" data-analytics-aggregate-events=\"true\" data-custom-experience=\"\" data-asset-type=\"hlsTs\" data-content-type=\"mediasource-clip\" data-medium-env=\"\" data-autostart=\"disabled\" data-show-ads=\"true\" data-source=\"CNN\" data-featured-video=\"true\" data-headline=\"Targets of Trump\u2019s retribution slam &quot;slush fund,&quot; say they're the real victims of weaponized DOJ\" data-has-video-player=\"true\" data-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Former federal prosecutors, fired officials and journalists who say they were past targets of President Donald Trump\u2019s retribution tell CNN they may seek compensation from the Justice Department\u2019s $1.8 billion \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund. 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