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.
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Donated to palin. Cost me 58.000.00. Put a lien on my home. Happened in 2010-2011 for tax year 2002 and 2004.
Multimillionaire Lois Lerner is laughing her ass off.
No doubt he would were someone to ask.
That's little. Trump is big. His focus is on Hillary. His minions will take care of the Lieutenants and the Bureaucracy will eat its own.
Lazy cretin pubbie congresscritters "dismissed" nothing. They simply did nothing and continued to pass Obama's budgets. With the power of the purse they could have brought the administration to heel. And what did they do?????
As Ayers said “guilty as sin; free as a bird.”
Strong letter to follow from the DOJ,,, or not,,, probably not.
Are you implying that politicians in this country should wage war on it’s citizens?
We the People expect that nothing whatsoever will happen to those guilty of this crime.
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