Posted on 03/23/2016 1:43:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Say, do you remember that whole flap over Lois Lerner and the IRS targeting conservative groups applying for tax exempt status a couple of years ago? Good times, my friends. Good times. I’m sure glad that’s all finally behind us, aren’t you?
Well guess again. It’s not even close to being over. Some of the affected groups brought suit against the IRS over the matter and that process has been dragging out for years now. They haven’t made as much ground as they might, however, because every time the plaintiffs request certain documents from the IRS, they mysteriously find reasons why they can’t be delivered as part of the normal discovery process. The case is currently stuck at the Sixth Circuit Court and this week they informed the Tax Man that they’ve had enough of their stalling. (Washington Post)
Today, nearly 1,050 days since the start of the IRS scandal triggered by allegations that the IRS unlawfully and unethically targeted tea party and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny, the litigation continues. One allegedly targeted group brought suit against the IRS for its conduct, and the IRS has resisted the litigation with the same dilatory tactics that infuriated members of Congress.
In the latest development, a federal district court ordered the IRS to turn over information concerning groups that were subject to the mistreatment identified by the agency’s inspector general. The IRS didn’t like this and is now seeking a writ of mandamus in order to avoid having to disclose more information. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit is not amused.
If I didn’t know where the statement to the IRS had come from I’d have expected to see the signature of one of the Tea Party groups at the bottom. The entire thing is worth a read, but here’s the clincher.
In closing, we echo the district court’s observations about this case. 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. We expect that the IRS will do better going forward. And we order that the IRS comply with the district court’s discovery orders of April 1 and June 16, 2015—without redactions, and without further delay.
Most of the documents being requested are the application forms submitted by the groups seeking tax exempt status. The IRS has kept insisting that the names of both the groups and the individuals submitting them are on the forms along with their taxpayer identification number and this somehow makes them confidential “return information” which they can’t release under law. This would be hilarious if it weren’t our own government acting in such a duplicitous fashion. They are taking laws which were designed to protect taxpayers from having their personal information exposed and turning them on their heads to try to cover their own backsides.
Fortunately, the court seems to have run out of patience and has ruled that the documents be produced along with all relevant records. I’m not sure how many more appeals the IRS has left before they finally have to come clean, but the end may be in sight.
Its too bad nothing will ever happen to the people making these decisions.
RICO !
Nothing will happen until the court sends department heads to jail until documents are produced. The courts have done this numerous times to reporters who won’t divulge their sources.
I sincerely hope for some actual indictments in this case, on charges that carry multiyear, double-digit sentences on conviction.
It’s time someone put the fear of God in these contemptible henchmen of the Great Impostor. HE needs to go to prison, too.
Bump your RICO and raise you a Special Prosecutor.
Bttt.
5.56mm
The orders came directly from the White House.
Yep. A sliding scale from top dog d9w to lower level executives. That will make them scream and holler wouldn’t it!? The crap would get done ASAP if it was their behinds on the line instead of the government.
Prediction 1: Nothing will happen.
Prediction 2: Nothing will happen.
The EPA will fine $35,000 a day just to get the mine gate unlocked so they can wreck a river!
The nicest thing I can say about the IRS is that it’s immoral and corrupt. After that it’s all profanity
Nothing will happen. the Establishment RINOs will protect them.
Kangaroo Court: The latest Kabuki Theater production starring Lois Lerner
You would use the law to oppose socialism? But it is upon the law that socialism itself relies. Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder; The Law; Frederic Bastiat
Cut/jib/newsletter.
See what fines the IRS imposes on the peasants, and apply those to the commissioners. Squeeze ‘em ‘til they pop.
no. the court needs to fine the individuals, personally, responsible for delaying tactics at whatever level of government they might be.
otherwise, it’s just taxpayer money.
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