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IRS fears Disclosure Above All Else, Offer Made in Court Confirms (Jewish Press)
The Jewish Press ^ | 7/22/13 | Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Posted on 07/22/2013 8:01:00 PM PDT by knak

The IRS insists that there is no legal remedy for determining whether an applicant's constitutional rights have been violated, and that offended parties must be satisfied with a "good enough" remedy, even if it is not perfect.

The IRS is doing everything it can to prevent accusers from determining whether its decision making processes violated the constitutional rights of applicants for tax exempt status

On Friday, July 19, in federal district court in Washington, D.C., Department of Justice lawyers who have the misfortune of having to represent the Internal Revenue Service were forced to reveal exactly how desperate the IRS is to keep its deep, dark secrets buried.

The hearing was held to determine whether the IRS would succeed in convincing the court to dismiss Z STREET’s lawsuit for viewpoint discrimination, before any of the claims alleged by Z STREET can be examined.

It is critical for the IRS to succeed at this stage of litigation, because if it does, Z STREET will be barred from finding out whether the IRS acted in an unconstitutional manner in setting aside its application for tax exempt status. If the IRS succeeds at this stage, no questions will be permitted into how it is that, according to documents produced by the IRS, the application for tax exempt status of an organization with a viewpoint about Israel which differs from this administration’s was pulled aside for extra scrutiny.

Over the course of more than an hour, and despite federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s increasingly apparent frustration with the shifting legal positions of the IRS, the DoJ lawyer said two things that should make everyone who is following the IRS scandals raise their eyebrows right through their hairlines.

(Excerpt) Read more at jewishpress.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; discrimination; fastandfurious; firstamendment; freespeech; impeachnow; irs; irsscandal; irsscandals; irssettlement; israel; zstreet
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To: gonzo

It gets worse too...

Drudge has a developing story up that Christine O’Donnell’s tax file and record of snooping mysteriously go missing.


21 posted on 07/23/2013 6:52:29 PM PDT by knak (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing)
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To: gonzo

Something needs to break open the dam holding back the truth about all the crimes committed by the administration.


22 posted on 07/23/2013 8:32:21 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: knak

It is the second coming of the Star Chamber.


23 posted on 07/23/2013 10:24:01 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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