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Biden’s Justice Department backs Donald Trump in DC protest suit
The Justice Department has agreed that the federal government will foot the bill if former President Donald Trump is found liable for violating the rights of protesters when National Guard troops and police forcibly drove racial justice demonstrators from a park near the White House in June 2020.
Justice Department attorneys said in a notice filed in federal court in Washington late Monday that Trump is entitled to U.S. government support in the civil case because the suit’s allegations stem from his work as president.
“On the basis of the information now available … I find that Donald J. Trump was acting within the scope of federal office or employment at the time of the incident out of which the plaintiffs’ claims arise,” wrote James Touhey Jr., the head of the Torts Branch in DOJ’s Civil Division.
The Biden DoJ has filed for dismissal of the suit largely along jurisdictional lines. Not the merits of the case as to whether the plaintiff's rights were violated. Following the law being a concept foreign to trump his co-defendants.