Jamie Raskin on Claims Trump Will Drop $10B IRS Lawsuit in Exchange for MAGA Fund: ‘Clearly Unconstitutional on a Number of Grounds’

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RASKIN: “Yeah. Well, let’s start with this, George, only Congress has the power to appropriate money. And Congress never voted on creating this $1.7 billion political slush fund at the Department of Justice. And Congress would never pass that. There’s no way he could get that through Congress. So, this is just an invention on his part. But even if Congress wanted to do it, I think it’s clearly unconstitutional on a number of grounds. To begin with, if you look at Section Four of the 14th Amendment, it says that no money can be spent by the federal government for the purposes of paying for insurrection or rebellion. So, to the extent that he wants to give a million dollars to each of 1,600 pardoned rioters and insurrectionists, we think that that’s an unconstitutional use of money.”