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Democrats asked a court to block a reported settlement between the IRS and President Donald Trump over a leak of his tax information during his first term, saying it lacks the bare minimum required to file a lawsuit: two opposing parties.

Nearly 100 House Democrats signed an amicus brief in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Monday that says the case doesn’t distinguish between Trump as president and “personal capacity.” The brief also demands the court dismiss the lawsuit as unconstitutional. It sets another marker on how Democrats are finding fresh opportunities to highlight their opposition to how Trump’s personally benefiting from being president.

Trump moved toward dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the 2019 leak of his tax information in a court filing Monday morning. The Department of Justice announced the creation of a $1.7 billion federal fund to pay victims of so-called government weaponization to resolve the lawsuit, under which Trump wouldn’t receive any money directly.

“The President has repeatedly claimed far-reaching Executive power and frequently sought to use that power to further his own personal interests,” the brief said. “He cannot pretend that officials at the IRS and the Department of the Treasury—and their lawyers at the DOJ—operate independently from him for purposes of this case.”....

The Democrats’ filing is being handled by a task force led by top House Democrat leaders Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), along with House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin and House Ways and Means Committee ranking member Richard Neal (D-Mass.).

“We urge the Court to dismiss this ludicrous case for lack of jurisdiction and to block any settlement that would turn the Treasury into a vehicle for corrupt self-dealing in violation of the Constitution and Congress’s exclusive power of the purse,” Raskin said in a statement announcing the amicus brief.