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Court rebukes IRS for tea party targeting, orders release of secret list
The Washington Times ^ | March 22, 2016 | Stephen Dinan

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 6thcircuitappeals; doj; election2016; ericthered; holder; irs; irsscandal; irsteaparty; irsteapartyscandal; itsteaparty; itsteapartyscandal; judgekethledge; koskinen; newyork; obama; teaparty; trump
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To: jazusamo

The past 7 years have made the Nixon administration look good on an ethical basis.


21 posted on 03/22/2016 4:55:15 PM PDT by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: WMarshal

I want no President to wield that type of power. It makes them a tyrant.

Apparently you are OK with tyrants you agree with.


22 posted on 03/22/2016 4:55:19 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: jazusamo

The judges said that the lawyers acted in bad faith? Then how do we go about getting those lawyers disbarred for their malfeasance?


23 posted on 03/22/2016 4:55:31 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: jazusamo
Also from the opinion...

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

24 posted on 03/22/2016 4:58:18 PM PDT by digger48
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To: TexasTransplant
Which year is this scheduled for?

In the year 2525. Zager and Evans. 😡

25 posted on 03/22/2016 4:58:48 PM PDT by Mark17 (Thank God I have Jesus, there's more wealth in my soul than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold)
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To: Bullish

“The folks at the top of the IRS....” You should always go outside of the system to seek satisfaction.


26 posted on 03/22/2016 5:01:08 PM PDT by Mashood
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To: jazusamo

the IRS politicos are running out the clock

Lois must get the needle


27 posted on 03/22/2016 5:03:26 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (leading from behind is following)
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To: Flick Lives

You owe Jaws an apology.


28 posted on 03/22/2016 5:05:55 PM PDT by null and void (This is "They live", and most people would rather fight you than put on the glasses...)
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To: catfish1957

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.


29 posted on 03/22/2016 5:16:30 PM PDT by nomorelurker
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To: null and void

You got it! ;-)


30 posted on 03/22/2016 5:18:47 PM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: jazusamo

Now make them enforce it against an administration that refuses to play by any but their own Marxist rules.


31 posted on 03/22/2016 5:31:14 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: jazusamo

So who has been jailed for contempt?


32 posted on 03/22/2016 5:34:45 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Flick Lives

‘til she was fifteen, she kept her virginity. Not a bad record for this here vicinity.


33 posted on 03/22/2016 5:38:36 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Flick Lives
LOIS LERNER TRIES TO BARGE INTO NEIGHBOR'S HOME TO DODGE JOURNALIST...and is unwelcomed
34 posted on 03/22/2016 5:55:38 PM PDT by disclaimer
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To: forgotten man

That would be nice.

And how about adding Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch.


35 posted on 03/22/2016 5:57:38 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Flick Lives

My favorite movie monologue of all time.


36 posted on 03/22/2016 6:09:23 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Popman
The judges ordered the IRS to quickly turn over the full list of groups it targeted

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.

37 posted on 03/22/2016 6:33:04 PM PDT by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: 5thGenTexan

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.


38 posted on 03/22/2016 6:38:53 PM PDT by WMarshal (Trump 2016 (and 2020)!)
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To: jazusamo

And the audits of conservatives ?


39 posted on 03/22/2016 6:43:50 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: jazusamo
“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.

It's hopeful... some small gesture attempting to slow the rapid course of the country becoming a hellhole ...

40 posted on 03/22/2016 6:44:58 PM PDT by GOPJ (Why isn't the press DEMANDING Hillary and Bernie denounce the violence of their thugs?)
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