• Judge bars Trump from citing settlement in future proceedings

• Trump, IRS were not adverse to each other in case, judge finds

-Settlement set up since-abanoned ‘weaponization fund’ and sweeping tax protections

WASHINGTON, July 13 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday voided President Donald Trump’s settlement with the IRS that gave him ‌and his companies sweeping tax protections and initially set up a nearly $1.8 billion government fund to pay victims of so-called government weaponization that was later abandoned.

Miami-based U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams found that Trump and the IRS, which he oversees as president, were not truly adverse to each other as is required in civil lawsuits under the U.S. Constitution. Williams referred a Trump lawyer in the case, Alejandro Brito, and senior Justice Department officials who signed off on ⁠the settlement to state bar authorities to determine if their actions violated legal ethics rules.