The case for impeaching Lois Lerner and other lawbreakers at the IRS

Washington Examiner ^ | August 20, 2014 | BY KEN CUCCINELLI AND MARK FITZGIBBONS

[Oldeconomybuyer]

In April, the House Ways and Means Committee referred Lois Lerner to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution. Nothing has come of it. Given the politicization and lawlessness of the DOJ under Attorney General Eric Holder, nothing likely will.

The House should move to impeach Lerner instead, and other IRS officials who have broken the law. Federal bureaucrats need to be sent a message that lawbreaking is not part of their job descriptions, and that notwithstanding our recalcitrant Justice Department, our constitutional system provides this remedy against executive branch officials gone rogue under the law.

More importantly, Americans deserve to know that lawbreaking within their own government will have consequences.

Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1928, “Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”

Those within the vast executive branch who are charged with enforcing the laws must be accountable to the law. Otherwise our system fails.

Federal impeachment under Article II of the Constitution is not reserved just for presidents or other high officials, but “all civil officers of the United States” as well. Aside from members of the military, any official in the executive branch is subject to impeachment.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Ken Cuccinelli is president of the Senate Conservatives Fund and the former attorney general of Virginia. Mark Fitzgibbons is co-author with Richard Viguerie of The Law That Governs Government: Reclaiming The Constitution From Usurpers And Society's Biggest Lawbreaker.

[NormsRevenge]

To do nothing is to shred the Constitution.

[Fungi]

Bonehead Boehner does not have a backbone, He's too busy at the tanning salon.

[Diogenesis]

Lerner has funded terrorist organizations and the GOP
is along side, from McCain to Boehner to Issa.

Americans would trust an average Girl Scout over the
entire self-serving EXEMPT treasonous Congress
that DELIBERATELY left the border open.

New Inconsistencies with Malik Obama’s IRS Paperwork
which bears Lerner’s signature, but is dated Sunday June 26, 2011.

Lois Lerner approved tax exempt status for foundation
operated by Obama's half-brother for Hamas

Deleted IRS Emails may be about Obama’s Brother and Hamas/a>

Barack Obama’s Brother Malik Joins Hamas Terrorist Group

Kerry, Obama, and the WEF’s $4 Billion Bailout Plan for PLO/Hamas

How the U.S. Aids Hamas Through the Palestinian Authority

Obama Also Approves Direct Funding For Hamas

Obama has US send another $50M to Gaza

Obama’s Brother Funds Hamas

Hamas 'happy' with Obama's $900 million pledge [2009]

U.S. Selling $11B in Weaponry to Gulf State That Supports Hamas and Syrian Jihadists

Why would Hamas negotiate with John Kerry after getting $47 million from him?

Obama Officials Meet with Hamas, Discuss Removing it from Terror List

Ninth Lesson From the Gaza War: Hamas Uses Humanitarian Aid for Evil

Will Obama Snatch Defeat from the Jaws of Victory Over Hamas?

Obama to the rescue – of Hamas

[Jack Hammer]

“Impeaching”????

If the entire nation weren’t being slowly f*cked under the boot of the White House Marxist cabal, she’d already be doing time.

[veracious]

If we can’t impeach a criminal IRS agent, then USA may as well surrender. We’ve been conquered by DC and its handlers, both foreign and domestic.

[Louis Foxwell]

This entire administration is a RICO criminal conspiracy. How will punishment be meted out? When the criminals are the adminstrators, the prosecutors, the police and the courts what recourse is open to citizens in search of justice?

[x]

She already quit, though, didn’t she?

[x]

She already quit, though, didn’t she?

[lee martell]

Impeachment means nothing to those who cannot be shamed. She needs to be locked up in a dull, spartan prison, with no interviews or internet either. That would ring her bells all right.

[Jacquerie]

She is a retired “civil servant,” still living high on the taxpayers she despises.

[Fungi]

Bingo!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ray76]

You’ve got it right.

[Don@VB]

Best idea I've heard! Impeach Lerner and other blatant transgressors. Send it to the Senate and let Dems up for reelection defend them.

[government is the beast]

Impeachment is a joke. All Tea Party Peeps and conservatives should NOT file any paperwork with the IRS until some one goes to prison! What happened to the Tea Party and Conservatives was a CRIME! Prison!

[Logical me]

The House should move to impeach Lerner instead

The House is a damn joke. They are as corrupt as Holder's criminal communists organization.

[x]

Still, the penalty of impeachment is removal from office.

If you don't have an office, you can't be impeached.

[Colorado Doug]

We should be past talking impeachment. In a sane world, we would be talking about how many years in prison she will serve.

[hal ogen]

Shouldn’t they be arrested and tried?

[Ray76]

Boehner has his head so far up Obama’s az he’s looking out his mouth.