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'Weak sauce': Federal judge bench slaps Trump lawyers
U.S. President Donald Trump reacts during a meeting with travel executives in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 2, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
The IRS Was Turned Into a Deportation Lookup Service
The Violation Was the Policy
The Trump administration enlisted the IRS in its mass-deportation campaign by transferring taxpayer information to the Department of Homeland Security. A federal judge found that the agency violated its own disclosure rules approximately 42,695 times, releasing addresses to immigration authorities even when their requests lacked…
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