Posted on 10/23/2014 4:07:51 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
The IRS may have inadvertently figured out how to win its legal battles against aggrieved tea party groups: Give them what they wanted in the first place — tax-exempt status.
That was a major reason a Republican-appointed federal judge on Thursday threw out two lawsuits brought by more than 40 conservative groups seeking remedies for being singled out in the tea party targeting scandal, a victory for the IRS.
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The powerful protect each other.
Whatever became of “Justice delayed is justice denied.”?
Walton, Reggie B.
Born 1949 in North Charleroi, PA
Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Nominated by George W. Bush on September 4, 2001, to a seat vacated by Stanley Sporkin. Confirmed by the Senate on September 21, 2001, and received commission on September 24, 2001.
Education:
West Virginia State College, B.A., 1971
American University, Washington College of Law, J.D., 1974
Professional Career:
Staff attorney, Defender Association of Philadelphia [Pennsylvania], 1974-1976
Assistant U.S. attorney and executive assistant U.S. attorney, District of Columbia, 1976-1981
Associate judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 1981-1989, 1991-2001
Associate director, Office of National Drug Control Policy, 1989-1991
Senior White House advisor for crime, Executive Office of the President, 1991
It lost in an election. 500 people voted and it lost 260 to 251. Took seven recounts, before they found some missing ballots.
What is the fovernment planning next? Pu$$ies in black robes cling to their government and double down.
Black Obola voting judge.
This nation has passed the time of just laws, there is now only tyranny. It will remain so and indeed get worse the longer it is allowed to exist.
De judge doan wann no Ay Ah Ess ‘vestigators comin’ ‘roun.....
Now the IRS can shut them up just like they do pastors of churches.
I fail to see how this was a victory for the IRS. They gave the tax exempt status to get out of the case. Yes, the IRS and the IRS officials who attacked conservative groups must be punished, but I don’t see this judgment as a total loss.
If they had continued to deny tax exempt status and the case was thrown out, then that would be a loss. Keep plugging away at these commie loving bureaucrats. It isn’t over, yet.
What a misleading title.
It does appear they can ruin you financially then allow your tax exempt status and they are then off the hook.
It does appear they can ruin you financially then allow your tax exempt status and they are then off the hook.
This judge appears to be on the right side in this case:
DOJ to Federal Judge: We Can Force Your Wife to Violate Her Religion
(CNSNews.com) - While presenting an oral argument in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia last fall, a lawyer for the U.S. Justice Department told a federal judge that the Obama administration believed it could force the judge’s own wife—a physician—to act against her religious faith in the conduct of her medical practice.
The assertion came in the case of Tyndale House Publishers v. Sebelius, a challenge to the Obama administration’s regulation requiring health-care plans to cover sterilizations, contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs.
In the face of this argument, Judge Walton asked an interesting question. His wife, a graduate of Georgetown Medical School, is a physician. She has incorporated her medical practice. Does that mean, according to the Obama administration’s argument, that the federal government can force her to act against her religious faith in the conduct of her medical practice?
Berwick effectively answered: Yes.
On Nov. 16, Judge Walton granted Tyndale a preliminary injunction preventing the Obama administration from forcing the corporation to violate the religious beliefs of its owners.
How does that undo what happened in the past?
You can’t make theft go away by giving the money back
Was there harm done?
Why would it matter if the point is moot because the bad action is no longer occurring.
The harm occurred and must be answered for.
It was a breach of the public trust.
Hope this ruling is appealed.
Methinks the judge got an audit notice in Monday’s mail.
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