Posted on 04/02/2015 8:41:55 AM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
The Justice Department has declined to pursue contempt of Congress charges against Lois Lerner for refusing to testify about her role at the IRS in the targeting of conservative groups.
The department announced the decision in a letter Tuesday to House Speaker John Boehner, whose Republican-controlled chamber made the request to prosecute, after holding Lerner in contempt for refusing to testify at committee hearings.
"Once again, the Obama administration has tried to sweep IRS targeting of taxpayers for their political beliefs under the rug,” Boehner spokesman Michael Steel told FoxNews.com.
Lerner asserted her Fifth Amendment privilege, which allows people to not testify against themselves, during a May 2013 hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and then again at a March 2014 hearing.
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Appoint a special prosecutor and charge Eric Holder with Contempt of Congress for failure to prosecute Lerner.
Surprise, surprise, surprise!
This topic posted 2x yesterday
Ok, so how about prosecuting her for abusing her office by discriminating against those of a particular political group?
I was under the impression that Congress had the power to jail someone for contempt irrespective of whether Holder’s People DoJ cooperates or not.
Isn’t it about time to rename the ‘Justice Department’ into something more appropriate, like the CBRB (Cover-barry’s regime-butts’) department? Democrats love the lawlessness, and they vote religiously for it. Democrats in all stripes and colors are emerging as THE enemies of the Republic.
Johnny Boehner has been told to not do anything that the media will spin as ‘partisanship’ The enemy (media) cowers Boehner the Blackmailable.
When the leaders no longer show respect for law and even proclaim themselves “the law”... the people will soon also not respect law... and then the government has only (and must use force) to implement its policies... this explains the desire by liberals to disarm the citizenry. To modern “progressives” law is always trumped by political ideology (seen when liberal judges overturn legal elections defining marriage). Mobs (Indiana, Ferguson) are cultivated (by compliant media) and roam the land seeking “heretics” to punish! Law to liberals is but a weapon to subjugate the people... as they who seek to RULE (not govern) see for themselves NO obligation follow “laws” (actually proclamations) they demand we obey. Tyranny and chaos soon reign and rebellion is always a possibility, so even more tyranny and force must be applied... and (without rebellion) the descent into totalitarianism is inevitable.
And the republicans just sit on their hands and do nothing. What dooooshes.
Where the Frig is the special prosecutors???
Congress cannot appoint a special prosecutor. The only one who can appoint a special prosecutor is... Eric Holder!
Special prosecutors/independent counsels are appointed by the Justice Department.
If we get the white house in 2016 kick the DOJ, whoever it is, out and put in a real Constitutional conservative. The let all hell brake loose out on Holder and Lerner. Then rip Hillary a new one with jail in the horizon. If this doesn’t happen then it is time to start a new party and dump the Republican jackasses.
More of the “concern” thinking.
Nope, each branch can appoint an independent counsel.
The affirmative=action AG, holder, has been in contempt of congress for a few years already. The spineless majority does nothing.
Being as how she's a Manager in The Managerial State (aka The UniParty), she won't ever be prosecuted for these felonies.
The Managerial State:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managerial_state
Paul Gottfried, in After Liberalism, defines this worldview as a "series of social programs informed by a vague egalitarian spirit, and it maintains its power by pointing its finger accusingly at antiliberals." He calls it a new theocratic religion. In this view, when the managerial regime cannot get democratic support for its policies, it resorts to sanctimony and social engineering, via programs, court decisions and regulations...
See my post #17
Since Congress found Holder to be in ‘Contempt of Congress’, HE OBVIOUSLY HAS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST TO BE MAKING ANY DECISIONS REGARDING ‘CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS’ CHARGES.
In my mind the precedent has been set by Lois Lerner and Hillary Clinton as to the rule we should all follow if we are ever questioned on our tax filings or audited by the IRS.
1.) DESTROY everything, or at least say it has been destroyed and
2.) Refuse to answer any and all questions - PERIOD.
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