HHAAHAA.... so much winning.
Trumpy and another lawyer shows just what winning looks like. For the other team that is.
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https://www.axios.com/2025/11/26/trump-hillary-clinton-lawsuit-sanctionCourt upholds Trump's nearly $1M penalty for frivolous Clinton suit
A conservative federal appeals court unanimously upheld nearly $1 million in sanctions against President Trump and his former attorney Alina Habba for filing what it called a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and other political enemies.
The big picture: Wednesday's ruling is the latest roadblock in Trump's long-running effort to punish his foes. It's also the president's second loss with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in recent days, after it refused to revive his defamation lawsuit against CNN.
A district court judge tossed and eviscerated the case Trump brought against Hillary Clinton and others, writing in 2023 that it "should never have been filed" and was "in bad faith."
Driving the news: The three-judge panel found the district court did not abuse its discretion in slamming Trump and Habba with sanctions and agreed with the lower court's findings that the president's arguments were deficient.
Chief Judge William Pryor Jr., a George W. Bush appointee, wrote the 36-page opinion joined by Trump-appointee Andrew Brasher and Biden-appointee Embry Kidd.
"President Trump will continue to pursue this matter to its just and rightful conclusion," a spokesperson for Trump's legal team said in a statement provided to Axios.
Context: Habba represented Trump before he was re-elected and appointed her to serve as the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey.
But a federal judge ruled in August that she had been acting as U.S. attorney without legal authority, determining her interim tenure had expired. The DOJ has challenged that decision.
U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks tossed the lawsuit in September of that year, calling it a "two-hundred-page political manifesto."
He later sanctioned Trump, Habba and her law firm to pay $937,989 for filing the frivolous lawsuit.
"Mr. Trump's deliberate use of a frivolous lawsuit for an improper purpose constitutes bad faith," the judge wrote at the time. "And the behavior is not unique, but part of a plan, or at least a playbook."
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