January 6 compensation fund

Eisen is optimistic litigation will limit the fund or produce an injunction stopping it.

“I'm optimistic that the litigation front is going to result in putting some limits and even an injunction stopping the implementation of the fund”

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Eisen expects substantial court challenges before any money leaves the fund.

“there's going to be a very substantial court pushback on the first dollar ever going out the door at the fund because it's so blatantly illegal”

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Eisen argues the fund lacks both constitutional and statutory authority and raises an emoluments issue.

“There's no constitutional authority to do this, including because it creates an emoluments issue. There's no statutory authority”

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Eisen says his group filed the first legal objection to the fund on behalf of 93 members of Congress.

“We filed an immediate legal objection on behalf of 93 members of Congress, the very first”

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Favreau recommends Democrats message the January 6 payout fund daily as a plan to give taxpayer money to criminals.

“If they win, they have a secret plan to take your money and give it to criminals who beat cops and abuse children”

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Favreau argued that Republicans who opposed the fund could prove it by voting against the final bill.

“if it really counted and they really didn't want the fund, they could vote against the final bill”

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Favreau argues the fund has no oversight or accountability and its payouts may never be disclosed.

“There's no oversight, no accountability over this fund whatsoever. We may never know who they pay, how much they pay them”

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Wagner criticized Senator Bill Cassidy for squandering a chance to redeem himself by refusing to back the Democratic amendment.

“This was the one chance Bill Cassidy had to redeem his reputation, his stature as a statesman”

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Wagner argued that Blanche's assurance the fund was dead is meaningless because he will do whatever Trump wants, so Congress must outlaw it.

“If Todd Blanch says on Monday – The slush fund is gone. And Trump says on Tuesday, I love it”

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Wagner highlights reporting that IRS lawyers wrote a memo concluding Trump's lawsuit would not stand up in court.

“IRS lawyers compiled a 25-page memo that was supposed to be sent to the Justice Department saying, hey, guys, listen, Trump's lawsuit isn't going to stand up in court”

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Pfeiffer expects Congress to attach at least a token restriction on the fund to the ICE funding bill.

“I would be surprised if this bill passed without some measure of something that at least is a putative fig leave of restriction on the slush fund”

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Pfeiffer argues the fund for January 6 defendants is so politically damaging that even Republican senators recognize it.

“It is a move so bad that even Republican senators can figure out that it's bad politically”

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Vietor says the New York Times account of how the fund came together looked like evidence of criminal conspiracy.

“But it read like the blueprint for a future RICO case”

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Lovett argues Democrats should force Republicans to vote publicly on opposing the slush fund now and in the future.

“i think democrats need to get republicans on record that they would oppose having this kind of a slush fund be legal now or in the future”

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