WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed two lawsuits stemming from the government’s alleged mistreatment of conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status.
Forty-two organizations sued the government, the Internal Revenue Service and individual IRS officials for constitutional violations, saying IRS officials pulled applications from conservative organizations and delayed processing those applications for sometimes well over a year during the 2010 and 2012 elections.
In a decision Thursday, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said federal courts in Washington do not permit financial claims against individual IRS defendants for alleged constitutional violations.
The judge also ruled that the IRS had suspended the practice of using watch lists to identify cases requiring extra scrutiny, thus removing one of the grounds for legal action.
Several investigations into the IRS’ handling of the applications are underway.
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At what point are they going to start investigating the real scandal, which is not that a couple hundred blatantly political tea-party organization came under scrutiny when applying for a special tax status unavailable to political organizations, but that a Republican Bush appointee granted said special tax status unavailable to political organizations to a couple hundred blatantly political tea-party organizations?
Sue the Judge!!!
“Nobody expects the Issa Inquisition!” says our Xtian car thief as he sneaks up behind the judge.
Seriously, if these groups have nothing to fear, let them make their tax-exempt applications public.
When can we stop using the false word “SCANDAL” in the headlines?
Peter Baker, one of the poorest excuses for a news writer with a byline at the NYT, the other day counted up the ‘scandals’ in the Obama administration that were according to him causing people to lose faith in government. IRS, Benghazi, VA … Only one of which was a scandal and hardly of Obama’s making.
I guess having a fake scandal is much more damning of our president than say Katrina, 9/11 and the financial meltdown were for Bush?
Cardinal- Poke her with the soft cushions!