Posted on 03/22/2016 4:36:27 PM PDT by jazusamo
A federal appeals court spanked the IRS Tuesday, saying it has taken laws designed to protect taxpayers from the government and turned them on their head, using them to try to protect the tax agency from the very tea party groups it targeted.
The judges ordered the IRS to quickly turn over the full list of groups it targeted so that a class-action lawsuit, filed by the NorCal Tea Party Patriots, can proceed. The judges also accused the Justice Department lawyers, who are representing the IRS in the case, of acting in bad faith — compounding the initial targeting — by fighting the disclosure.
“The lawyers in the Department of Justice have a long and storied tradition of defending the nation’s interests and enforcing its laws — all of them, not just selective ones — in a manner worthy of the Department’s name. The conduct of the IRS’s attorneys in the district court falls outside that tradition,” Judge Raymond Kethledge wrote in a unanimous opinion for a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. “We expect that the IRS will do better going forward.”
Justice Department officials declined to comment on the judicial drubbing, and the IRS didn’t respond to a request for comment on the unusually strong language Judge Kethledge used.
The case stems from the IRS‘ decision in 2010 to begin subjecting tea party and conservative groups to intrusive scrutiny when they applied for nonprofit status.
An inspector general found several hundred groups were asked inappropriate questions about their members’ activities, their fundraising and their political leanings.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
**** “Unanimous three judge decision, will it be a unanimous three judge wrist slapping?” ****
Which year is this scheduled for?
FINALLY!!!!!
pin the tail on the donkey!
Cold comfort, now that the damage has been done. The election was effected because of it. But that’s how they work. Do the damage and move on. Wait for the courts to decide years down the road.
Banana “republic”
They hit Obama, Obama hit back harder.
Same tatics praised elsewhere in this forum.
When is Trump going to make a campaign pledge to prosecute Lois Lerner and John Koskinen?
Now, if they can litigate fines and jail terms...
I made a small donation for a small house race in OR and a donation to Ted Cruz.
I was targeted by IRS in both cases.
The one to Ted Cruz caused someone in Austin, TX IRS office to edit my tax return file.
Though skeptical I congratulate this decision and Judge Kethledge for ordering the list released, it’s a step in the right direction.
You know the thing about a corrupt IRS hack, she's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When she comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until she bites ya and those black eyes roll over white.
Same tatics praised elsewhere in this forum
So if a socialist and a patriot were in a fight to the death you want the patriot to only be able to box while the socialist can go full MMA? If you fight for what you truly believe in you fight with everything or it is just a hobby.
In IRS parlance that means sometime in first quarter century...
LONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG JAiL terms and YUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGE fines!
Doesn’t matter, justice delayed is justice denied.
That kind of stuff by the IRS is criminal in my view and people audited under those conditions, like you, know exactly why they’re being audited.
Dammit. 5 years too late. I do believe things would have turned out differently if they’d have collared that dog before the last election.
It is the nature of government to behave that way. We need a lot less government than we have now.
The list has been destroyed along with any and all other evidence. The folks at the top of the IRS should be charged with conspiracy among other things... But then most of us here know they never will be. The govts first job these days is to protect itself from any and all prosecutions.
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