Ryan Lucas
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135 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Sep
Ryan Lucas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Anti-weaponization fund is dead and also written limits to a tax immunity deal for Trump, his family and businesses.
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Late Sunday, Blanche released two documents that purport to address those.
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One says it formally rescinds the order that created the anti-weaponization fund, meaning the fund is dead.
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The other purports to clarify the scope of the tax immunity deal, including that it only applies retroactively and only to Trump.
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two of his sons, and the Trump Organization.
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That said, legal experts say neither document that Blanche released is actually legally binding, and they don't provide the sort of ironclad guarantees that they purport to, but they are enough for Cornyn and Tillis, who yesterday thanked Blanche for the assurances and said they would now support his nomination.
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Look, this anti-weaponization fund was deeply unpopular with Republican senators from the very beginning.
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Remember, this would be $1.8 billion of taxpayer money that the DOJ said could be doled out to, in essence, anyone.
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That includes rioters who attacked the Capitol on January 6th and beat up cops.
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The tax immunity deal was also problematic for some Republicans.
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As Cornyn himself put it last week, that deal would provide Trump with benefits that no other American taxpayer could get.
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To be clear, those benefits still very much remain in place.
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It's also worth pointing out that there is a long list of other issues at the Justice Department available.
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that legal experts, department veterans think should make Congress question Blanche's leadership as well as his fitness to be attorney general.
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Okay, so Chas?
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Well, some point to his handling of the Epstein files.
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You can also look at the department's politicization under Blanche or the targeting of Trump's perceived enemies.
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But more broadly, there's also the unraveling of what's known as the presumption of regularity, this idea that courts assume that
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that DOJ officials are acting properly, acting in good faith, that they're making accurate factual representations in court.
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Under this administration, federal judges, we have seen them repeatedly express concerns about the Justice Department not complying with court orders.
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