Section 1203 of the Internal Revenue Code specifies that any IRS employee who invokes the 5th Amendment in a judicial or administrative proceeding relevant to their job is subject to immediate termination, without recourse.
Ms. Lerner should already be on the street.
Ms. Lerner should already be on the street.
First I agree with you 100%
That being said the loophole I see here is that congress is neither the judiciary or the "administrators" of the IRS. They can find her in contempt of Congress and the consequences are similar, but separation of powers means they have to go to court for various things.