RE: The Internal Revenue Service has failed to turn over documents requested by the powerful Senate tax-writing panel, which is investigating the tax agency´s practice of targeting conservative organizations
So, in a stand-off between Senate and the IRS, who wins?
Does the Senate have the power to ENFORCE anything?
I hasten to remind everyone -— Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress... SO?
What did that do?
“Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress... SO?
What did that do?”
As I understand it there were two contemporaneous contempt of congress findings, one criminal and the other civil. The criminal one could only be acted on by the Justice Department, and of course was ignored (by a federal prosecutor named Machen I believe, who also is involved in the AP phone case I think).
The civil case, as I understand it, opened up the possibility to file a civil suit for release of the documents Issa’s committee seeks. That case is still working its way through the courts.
I was prompted to keep an eye on this a month or two ago, because one freeper (forgotten screen name) noted that the judge considering the case seemed none too impressed with Holder’s arguments. A decision is pending.
For what it is worth, the other day I listened to an interview that Issa gave to Crowley and heard Issa slip in the statement that he expects to eventually get the Fast and Furious documents that are sought. Fast and Furious is not dead. It is comatose at the moment, but sometimes people and investigations (figuratively) come out of a coma.