The IRS Scandal, Day 1068

Patriot Post, IRS Meets Some Justice:

The Internal Revenue Service long has been exposed in its overtly political and sleazy maneuvering, but little has been done thus far to hold rogue bureaucrats to account. Fortunately, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals took a step toward halting the deny-delay-and-destroy tactics of this government agency. ...

For just shy of three years, Barack Obama’s weaponized tax-collecting agency has fought to hide data being sought by conservative groups the IRS targeted in the 2012 election cycle. Specifically, the IRS petitioned for a writ of mandamus to block the discovery efforts of the plaintiffs.

But the Sixth Circuit has ordered that the taxpayer-funded agency immediately turn over requested information about its activity. Writing for the unanimous three-judge appellate panel, Judge Raymond Kethledge noted that mandamus is “an extraordinary remedy reserved to correct only the clearest abuses of power by a district court.” In other words, the offense was greeted with a flat denial of the IRS’s petition.

The Court’s response begins: “Among the most serious allegations a federal court can address are that an executive agency has targeted citizens for mistreatment based on their political views. No citizen — Republican or Democrat, socialist or libertarian — should be targeted or even have to fear being targeted on those grounds. Yet those are the grounds on which the plaintiffs allege they were mistreated by the IRS here. The allegations are substantial: most are drawn from findings made by the Treasury Department’s own Inspector General for Tax Administration.”

The Cincinnati-based three-judge appeals panel charged with this matter has lost patience with the legal representation of the IRS. And who represents the IRS in this lawsuit that’s clearly being avoided only through the lack of cooperation? None other than the Obama Justice Department.

Judge Kethledge authored the decision and wrote that the Justice Dept. lawyers “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. We expect that the IRS will do better going forward.”

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