I think we agree we’re not in Kansas any more. I would guess it’s legal for DOJ to try to convince the IRS that they believe criminal charges against IRS crooks would go nowhere, if that’s what they did, but this is all weird. Biden threatened Ukraine would lose $1B in US aid unless the prosecutor was fired. Who knows what Garland’s minions threatened.
I would think the DoJ's play is to tell the IRS to hold off on its investigation because it would interfere with a DoJ investigation, and then the DoJ would stonewall its own investigation.
-PJ