Judge drags Trump’s IRS settlement back into court

Trump’s IRS settlement was supposed to make a $10 billion lawsuit disappear quietly. Instead, it has walked back into court carrying a $1.776 billion fund, a no-more-audits promise, and 35 retired federal judges asking whether the exit door was built out of cardboard. Judge Kathleen Williams is now making Trump’s lawyers explain whether this was a real legal settlement or a government handshake wearing a fake mustache. Washington has many traditions. But “sue the government, settle with your own government, then have another judge ask if the court got played” is paperwork doing parkour.