Posted on 03/22/2016 4:36:27 PM PDT by jazusamo
A federal appeals court spanked the IRS Tuesday, saying it has taken laws designed to protect taxpayers from the government and turned them on their head, using them to try to protect the tax agency from the very tea party groups it targeted.
The judges ordered the IRS to quickly turn over the full list of groups it targeted so that a class-action lawsuit, filed by the NorCal Tea Party Patriots, can proceed. The judges also accused the Justice Department lawyers, who are representing the IRS in the case, of acting in bad faith — compounding the initial targeting — by fighting the disclosure.
“The lawyers in the Department of Justice have a long and storied tradition of defending the nation’s interests and enforcing its laws — all of them, not just selective ones — in a manner worthy of the Department’s name. The conduct of the IRS’s attorneys in the district court falls outside that tradition,” Judge Raymond Kethledge wrote in a unanimous opinion for a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. “We expect that the IRS will do better going forward.”
Justice Department officials declined to comment on the judicial drubbing, and the IRS didn’t respond to a request for comment on the unusually strong language Judge Kethledge used.
The case stems from the IRS‘ decision in 2010 to begin subjecting tea party and conservative groups to intrusive scrutiny when they applied for nonprofit status.
An inspector general found several hundred groups were asked inappropriate questions about their members’ activities, their fundraising and their political leanings.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
The past 7 years have made the Nixon administration look good on an ethical basis.
I want no President to wield that type of power. It makes them a tyrant.
Apparently you are OK with tyrants you agree with.
The judges said that the lawyers acted in bad faith? Then how do we go about getting those lawyers disbarred for their malfeasance?
I feel like the government is doing everything it possibly can to make this as complicated as it possibly can, to last as long as it possibly can, so that by the time there is a result, nobody is going to care except the plaintiffs.
What government does best
In the year 2525. Zager and Evans. 😡
“The folks at the top of the IRS....” You should always go outside of the system to seek satisfaction.
the IRS politicos are running out the clock
Lois must get the needle
You owe Jaws an apology.
Yes Nixon never did anything close to this but was run out of office. Hillary, Lerner seem to be able to skate. In the next few weeks, not months we will see if “the rule of law” means anything. NO JUSTICE NO PEACE.
You got it! ;-)
Now make them enforce it against an administration that refuses to play by any but their own Marxist rules.
So who has been jailed for contempt?
‘til she was fifteen, she kept her virginity. Not a bad record for this here vicinity.
That would be nice.
And how about adding Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch.
My favorite movie monologue of all time.
This is nothing more than a repeat of the initial order (which the IRS is already ignoring). And the practice is still ongoing. There are groups that have been waiting six year now for the tax status they are legally due, but the IRS continues to stonewall.
I suppose during WW II you would have dropped flowers on Nagasaki and Hiroshima and then immediately parachuted down for a hug? You suffer from magical moral thinking.
And the audits of conservatives ?
It's hopeful... some small gesture attempting to slow the rapid course of the country becoming a hellhole ...
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