Brian S. King

Chair of the @UtahDemocrats, attorney, former legislator, 2024 candidate for governor, building a party, and a Utah, that works for everyone.

[Brian S. King @KingForUtah]

"The exposure and punishment of public corruption is an honor to a nation, not a disgrace. The shame lies in toleration, not in correction ...." Theodore Roosevelt

[Utah Democratic Party @UtahDemocrats]

Happy Pride Month Utah! 🏳️‍🌈

We are proud to stand with our LGBTQ+ community, today and every day.

You are loved. You are seen. You are valued. You belong here. You are enough - exactly as you are. We love you! ❤️

[Ken Martin @kenmartin73]

Since the Callais Supreme Court decision, @TheDemocrats’ voter protection team has been hard at work.

In Louisiana, ahead of the May 16 election, we contacted more than 140,000 voters with voting information to help them cast their ballots.

In Tennessee, we worked with the state party to raise resources to help them with legal fees and volunteer recruitment.

And in Mississippi, we messaged more than 62,000 voters to ensure their voter registration was up to date.

We are putting in the work to make sure every registered voter is heard at the ballot box.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understand—that our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas.

Americans are not a race, we're a people united not by ethnicity, but by our shared convictions, and that is what makes us exceptional

[Utah Democratic Party @UtahDemocrats]

Defeating HB267 is delicious! 🔥 In a bit of fun, we torched tiny Union-busting bills with our s’more brownies tonight. Thanks to the incredible team at our Todd Taylor and Ed & Karen Mayne fundraiser tonight 👏🏻 More pics and video to come! #utpol

[Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner]

You should have voted to convict the scorpion in its impeachment trial, Senator Frog

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: NOT SO FAST! Federal judge reopens Trump’s IRS case and demands to know if her court was defrauded.

Judge Kathleen Williams has had enough.

In a brief but devastating order Friday, the federal judge in Miami reopened Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS — a case Trump had voluntarily dismissed last week specifically to avoid her scrutiny — and ordered Trump's lawyers to explain by June 12th why she shouldn't find that the entire scheme was a fraud perpetrated against her court.

The judge's language was pointed and precise. She said she wanted to investigate "grievous allegations" that the deal to resolve the case was "premised on deception." She asserted that she was "empowered to investigate serious misconduct" and demanded answers to two devastating questions: was "the court the victim of a fraud," and did Trump collude with his own government to settle the case specifically "to avoid judicial scrutiny"?

The answer to both questions, based on everything that has already been reported, appears to be yes.

Judge Williams had been circling this case for weeks before Trump pulled it. She had openly questioned how Trump could sue an agency he controls, with government lawyers who answer to him, producing a settlement negotiated with officials he appointed. She ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually adversaries or secretly colluding. Trump dismissed the case the day before those briefs were due.

Then, after she closed it, the Justice Department released not one but two extraordinary agreements — a $1.776 billion fund to compensate Trump's allies, and a separate one-page document permanently barring the IRS from ever auditing Trump, his family, or his businesses. Agreements that had apparently been negotiated while the case was supposedly active before her court.

Judge Williams cited the New York Times report revealing that the IRS had prepared a 25-page memo outlining strong defenses against Trump's suit — defenses the Justice Department never raised in court, never filed, never mentioned.

Her order came directly in response to the filing by 35 former federal judges — appointed by presidents of both parties — who called the scheme a fraud and urged her to reopen the case.

She listened.

"We stand ready to work with the court as it investigates this matter," said Norman Eisen, who represented the former judges.

Trump tried to flip the table before she could see the cards. She just put them back on the table.

If you can’t wait to see the Justice Department try to explain itself, please like and share this post everywhere.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: “…I have to start tonight with a story that in any other administration, would be grounds for opening an impeachment inquiry, because today ProPublica reported that the White House intervened to get a $620 million deal for a company tied to President Trump’s adult son @DonaldJTrumpJr…the deal in question involved a startup focused on rare earth magnet production called Vulcan Elements and last Summer, Don Jr’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in that company, and wouldn’t you know…three months later, the Pentagon announced that it was giving Vulcan Elements a $620 million loan.”🙄🤦‍♀️

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case!

Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined

Kudos to our wonderful client @RepBeatty
& my colleagues @DDAction_ & Washington Litigation Group

This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption

[Brian S. King @KingForUtah]

It is completely necessary for the judiciary to step in and stop Trump’s abuse of power.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: A federal judge is now signaling the Trump administration’s so-called “weaponization fund” may have emerged from collusive litigation and could potentially amount to fraud on the court.

That is nuclear-level language from a judge.

“Fraud on the court” is not normal criticism.
It is reserved for situations where a court believes it may have been manipulated, misled, or used as part of a coordinated scheme.

And the judge reportedly pointed to two giant red flags:
- the massive $1.8 billion settlement amount
- and concerns the opposing sides may not have actually been acting as true adversaries

Translation?

The court is openly questioning whether this lawsuit was partially engineered to create a taxpayer-funded political compensation machine.

That is an absolutely extraordinary development.

[Utah Democratic Party @UtahDemocrats]

Transparency on MIDA is long overdue. When celebrity money + state lawmakers collide, backroom deals thrive in the dark. Most Utahns had never heard of MIDA until recently. They deserve to know who benefits.

Transparent Utah is exactly what accountability looks like. Well done.

[Senator John Cornyn @JohnCornyn]

An old, but apt fable:

A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "I am sorry, but I couldn't help myself. It's my character." @Wikipedia

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

They are looting this country. Dismantling it, selling it for parts, and lining their own pockets.

It is corruption to the highest degree.

[Utah Democratic Party @UtahDemocrats]

Cruelty dressed up as policy. Cutting food assistance from millions of children to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy is a moral failure.

Utah Democrats have spent years fighting to expand access to affordable childcare, keep kids fed, and make sure families have the support they need to thrive. This fight is far from over.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

A truly despicable, corrupt, un-American, rapist, wanna-be-authoritarian “man” is running the country and everyone enabling him should be ashamed.

[Utah Democratic Party @UtahDemocrats]

An informed vote is a powerful one. The CD1 candidate debate is TONIGHT - tune in live and hear directly from the people fighting to represent you.

For more, check out:
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[Utah Democratic Party @UtahDemocrats]

The manufactured crisis surrounding our elections was never real. Utah’s elections systems passed the tests. It’s time to ask why the supermajority moved the goalposts anyway.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

This is Ken Paxton's mugshot.

He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud.

He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery.

He was impeached by his own party for corruption.

Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas.

Together we will stop him.

[Utah Democratic Party @UtahDemocrats]

The direct result of policies that protect the powerful and leave everyone else behind.

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

The administration plans to use claims that "China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.”

The premise, it almost goes without saying, is a total lie. https://t.co/8k7Wx4FmNg

[Ken Martin @kenmartin73]

Three million kids will lose healthcare because Trump and Republicans wanted to give massive tax cuts to their rich buddies.

This guy never gave a damn about you or your family.