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'Tortious injury': Trump bid to save IRS audit deal goes off the rails in new court filing

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President Donald Trump's lawyers told a federal appeals court Tuesday the president faces "tortious injury" without a stay of a sanctions order voiding his IRS audit deal. The motion , filed Tuesday in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, asks the court to pause U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams's July 13 sanctions order while Trump appeals. If the deal is restored, it could shield the president from a potential $100 million tax bill — and wipe out sanctions that have already put two of his lawyers' careers in jeopardy. The filing repeatedly attacked Williams, a judge appointed by former President Barack Obama. The motion argues the judge's gag order is so sweeping it covers the appeal itself — barring the parties from even referencing the settlement they are fighting to revive. "It is so sweeping that, theoretically, Movants risk violating it merely by appealing it, which underscores how violently the Sanctions Order violates the Constitution," the motion states. "When a court