Major law firm counsel are encouraging a federal judge to probe whether Justice Department lawyers representing the IRS are sufficiently insulated from President Donald Trump’s control in his ongoing suit against the federal tax agency.
The $10 billion lawsuit is “novel” and “unprecedented” in that a sitting president “seeks monetary damages for alleged harm to his personal interests from an executive agency that he controls,” the outside lawyers wrote in a memo filed late Thursday.
The filing responds to a request from Judge Kathleen M. Williams of the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida to assist the ...
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