Judge Questions Trump’s $10 Billion IRS Leak Lawsuit

On April 25, a judge expressed doubts about whether President Trump’s $10 billion privacy lawsuit against the IRS and the U.S. Treasury can proceed, as Trump effectively controls both sides of the litigation. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ordered the Justice Department to provide a written explanation by May 20 on how she should oversee the case when the Constitution requires a legitimate ‘adversarial controversy’ for the court to have jurisdiction. The judge noted that given Trump is the sitting president and his designated opponent is an entity under his leadership, the court is currently ‘unclear whether the parties have sufficient adversarial standing’ to establish jurisdiction.