Posted on 05/31/2014 11:00:48 PM PDT by Nachum
Did they win this at the Supreme Court or a Federal Court?
If the latter, the IRS might fight this all the way to the SCOTUS...
Sadly, I don't think that Z Street won too much of anything at this point, contrary to the article's headline. What happened was this: Z Street filed a complaint, then the IRS responded with a motion to dismiss, which the (federal district) judge denied at this early stage of the litigation, instead ordering the defendant IRS to present a formal answer to the complaint.
This was essentially a procedural ruling, notifying the IRS that they'll have to present a more substantive argument to defeat Z Street's claim that the tactics used by the IRS were unconstitutional.
Hate to put it this way, but the facts are that this particular judge is a young black female appointed by Obama. One might expect her to be leaned on by those who pushed her nomination to do what she is "supposed" to do. In other words, don't expect Z Street to obtain much success at the district court level. Unfortunately, it would seem as if they got the "wrong" judge. But there are still rare pleasant surprise.
“Most pro-Israel American Jews did NOT vote for Zero.”
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I did a a simple search “Jewish vote for Obama”.
The first five results show 69 to 70 percent.
Why is that?
Ex pat Americans in Israel vote the opposite of domestic American Jewish people.
Think it was the judge on FOX that pointed out the discovery on this case would be interesting
Yes, that's if they wind up having discovery. But, being pessimistic about it, the hunch here is that the IRS will pull out all stops to prevent that from happening, and will lean on this Obama-appointed judge to see that it never does happen - at least as long as she is presiding over the case.
Of course, if discovery is denied, there may be some recourse for the plaintiff at the Circuit Court (appellate) level.
I suspect that the real number was closer to 60%. What happens is that just about all this polling is done by pro-'Rat organizations who benefit by skewing their polling techniques in such a way that 'Rats are oversampled. They most likely didn't poll too many orthodox Jews or relatively recently arrived Jews from Russia and the Iron Curtain countries, because of language and/or cultural differences with the pollsters. Those two subgroups voted majority Romney. In general, there are many practical problems in sampling American Jews because there is a lot of diversity in both thought and culture, as well as geography, even though in total, they add up to a bit less than 2% of the American population.
Be that as it may, the main reason for the higher than expected vote for Zero among American Jews is that too many don't value the importance of Israel anywhere near as much as they logically should.
Yes, that's been pretty much the pattern, especially in the last two presidential elections.
They won what the could at this stage, that’s good news. For now.
Even at the appellate level it would be well worth keeping an eye on!
Really doesn’t matter who the initial judge is if it’s heading up the road to higher court Sometimes the more errors the better for final decision
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