ALERT: Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) files court brief urging judge to HALT Trump slush fund
Cassidy & Sen. Cory Booker argue the case "is a question of whether the machinery of democratic government may be turned, by design and with explicit intent, against the democratic foundations it exists to serve"
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In asking court to intervene and stop the Trump sklush fund, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) emphasize that Trump *again* refused to abandon during news conference yesterday
Sen. Cassidy & Booker's court filing:
"As sitting U.S. Senators, amici are duty-bound to protect the institutional authority of Congress and its duly-elected representatives. The Constitution of the United States directs the power of the purse to Congress alone"
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) court filing against slush fund: "Because the very lawsuit that sparked the settlement was collusive and therefore could not be heard in a federal court, and accordingly no monetary award would have been available through that collusive litigation, the Judgment Fund is not available"
***And note this***
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) court filings argues: 'The Anti-Weaponization Fund' presents a threat to our constitutional democracy that this Court has never before been asked to confront"
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