The 11th Circuit upheld a lower court ruling that President Trump colluded with the Justice Department in bringing and dismissing a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. The case, filed in January over the leak of Trump’s tax returns, was dismissed under a late-May agreement with the IRS. The Justice Department subsequently created a $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund to compensate people who claim they were wronged by the government, outside the court process. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams found the lawsuit was never genuinely adversarial and had been used to lend judicial legitimacy to the arrangement. The appeals court also upheld sanctions against Trump attorneys Alejandro Brito and Daniel Epstein, rejecting their argument that related speech restrictions violated the First Amendment.