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Another Judge Confirms: IRS Targeted Tea Party Groups
Cybercast News Service ^ | November 21, 2016 | 4:29 PM EST | Hans Bader

Posted on 11/21/2016 9:11:52 PM PST by Olog-hai

Yet another judge has ruled against the IRS over its unconstitutional targeting of conservative and tea party groups based on their political views. […]

Judge Michael R. Barrett wrote in his decision that the Texas Patriots tea party group had “made a strong showing of a likelihood of success” on its claim that its free speech rights were violated by the IRS lengthy delay in processing its application. “The evidence strongly suggests that the IRS initiated the delay” because the Texas group was affiliated with the tea party, the judge wrote. […]

Moreover, in documents recently unearthed by Judicial Watch, a top Obama IRS official admitted it targeted groups based on “guilt by association.” Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, which is counsel to the Texas Patriots, says “We’re getting document after document showing the IRS both in Washington and Cincinnati knew that [IRS employees] were doing things outside the rules … they were asking inappropriate questions based on guilt by association or party affiliations.” …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bhoirs; irs; irsscandal; obama; oppression; rulinglawsuit; teaparty; tyranny

1 posted on 11/21/2016 9:11:52 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

And the MSM wrote hardly a word about it.

But let the IRS now go after Liberal/Leftist/Marxist groups and the MSM will go utterly apesh*t.


2 posted on 11/21/2016 9:14:35 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Jack Hammer

Well, USA Today wrote about it, but it’s a waste to post a link here.


3 posted on 11/21/2016 9:15:51 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Well, USA Today wrote about it

I'm at home this week and not at a hotel, so I missed that.

4 posted on 11/21/2016 9:19:27 PM PST by Michael.SF. (Canceling classes because Trump won, is excatly why Trump won.)
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To: Michael.SF.

I’ve always deliberately avoided that when staying at hotels, myself.

Any company that names itself after a fish-eating seabird that looks like a small albatross can’t be all that smart.


5 posted on 11/21/2016 9:23:27 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

And they did it all at the behest and orders of the snake in the white hut. People need to lose their jobs and go to jail.


6 posted on 11/21/2016 10:06:51 PM PST by Bullish (The fly on Hillary's forehead knows)
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To: Olog-hai
So can we now lock up Lois Lerner ?

Appears to me this was a civil rights violation.

7 posted on 11/21/2016 10:14:50 PM PST by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where's your brothers ElCamino ?)
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To: Olog-hai

I hope that those responsible end up going to jail. I no that it was collusion between neoconservatives in the house and senate and Barak Obama in the white house. that allowed political operatives to go after the tea party.


8 posted on 11/21/2016 11:27:05 PM PST by PCPOET7
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To: PCPOET7

The IRS squashed the Tea Party for the Dems and they still lost big.


9 posted on 11/21/2016 11:48:20 PM PST by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: Olog-hai

Bookmark


10 posted on 11/22/2016 12:47:51 AM PST by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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To: Olog-hai

top people at the IRS belong in prison or worse.
And their boss is a worthless antiAmerican negro,


11 posted on 11/22/2016 2:06:40 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Her ass belongs in prison.)
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To: Olog-hai

“Not even a smidgen of evidence of wrongdoing....”


12 posted on 11/22/2016 5:03:17 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Olog-hai

What!?!


13 posted on 11/22/2016 6:05:51 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hillary Clinton: the official candidate of the National Sleep Foundation)
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To: JohnnyP

It is estimated that the interference in IRS groups organizing in 2012 was enough to prevent Romney from winning.


14 posted on 11/22/2016 6:53:46 AM PST by tbw2
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To: tbw2

I forgot. The Tea Party rose up in 2010 but couldn’t get any traction.


15 posted on 11/22/2016 7:04:36 AM PST by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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