Justice Department settles IRS lawsuits from 400 conservative groups claiming discrimination
Source: USA Today
Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY Published 8:00 a.m. ET Oct. 26, 2017
WASHINGTON – Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday that the Justice Department is settling class action lawsuits brought by more than 400 conservative groups who said they were "improperly" delayed when seeking tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service.
“The IRS’ use... of heightened scrutiny was wrong and should never have occurred," Sessions said. "It is improper for the IRS to single out groups for different treatment based on their names or ideological positions."
Justice Department lawyers represented the IRS. The groups brought legal action in wake of disclosures about the delays during the Obama administration that prompted the resignation of the IRS' top official at the time, along with other officials tied to the matter.
At one point, President Obama addressed the issue, saying it was "outrageous" for the IRS to target groups based on political beliefs and those involved should be "held fully accountable."
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/10/26/justice-department-settles-irs-lawsuits-400-conservative-groups-claiming-discrimination/801891001/
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oh, I forget your vice-president Traitor, Flake, Corker, MConnell, Barrasso, Thune, and 48 other republican lackeys, except two from your party, that had commonsense, decided all by yourselves, to eviscerate the Seventh Amendment:
Amendment VII
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/seventh_amendment
But when 400 right wingers get there underwear tied up in knots, because after all the IRS is suppose to make sure that when "groups" ask for exemption that what they say is what they are.................and this is classic from your mouth:
"It is improper for the IRS to single out groups for different treatment based on their names or ideological positions."
http://www.opb.org/news/article/jeff-sessions-portland-visit-protest/
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/closed-door-speech-jeff-sessions-tells-wing-group/story?id=48627195
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/jeff-sessions-tells-hate-group-doj-will-issue-religious-freedom-n782756
See a pattern here Sessions, some of these "groups" that you addressed are tax exempt under your BS ruling and your attacking the IRS
