Contents tagged with tea party
Filed in: Free Speech | by Jay Sekulow | 2:23 PM May. 17, 2013
IRS Testimony: Arrogant and Embarrassing - Federal Lawsuit to be filed Next Week Against IRS
It was a very troubling hearing to watch. Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, who is leaving his job about three weeks earlier than planned, appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee today to answer questions about the ever-expanding scandal at the IRS - the decision to target hundreds of conservative groups - unlawfully focusing on them because of their ideological beliefs. Miller had nothing to offer. Nothing to help shed light on this very intrusive intimidation scheme carried ou... Continue Reading
Filed in: Free Speech | by Jay Sekulow | 5:50 PM May. 15, 2013
IRS Scandal: Time for Independent Counsel
President Obama continues to fail to show leadership as this IRS scandal continues to expand. The resignation of acting IRS Commissioner Steve Miller does not solve any of the problems of this tainted and politically-driven agency. The announcement comes just hours after the IRS attempted to blame this abhorrent conduct on a couple of rogue IRS agents out of the Cincinnati office. The American people and our clients deserve much more. There are many questions that President Obama failed to add... Continue Reading
Filed in: Free Speech | by David French | 4:05 PM May. 15, 2013
The Tea-Party IRS Scandal: A Facebook FAQ
Right now, across this vast land, conservative Americans are doing social-media battle with their friends on the left. Since I manage our digital media for the ACLJ (in addition to doing lawyer stuff), I’m quite familiar with the equivalent of the AP Style Manual for Facebook commentary. So, in the spirit of clarity (and to have a little fun), I hereby present a “Facebook FAQ” on the IRS controversy written with questions we’ve seen and can all understand. (The ACLJ is r... Continue Reading
Filed in: Free Speech | by Jay Sekulow | 3:08 PM May. 14, 2013
The Puzzling, Intrusive Questions the IRS Asked Conservative Groups We Represent
Lois Lerner is the director of the exempt organizations division at the IRS. Friday, she dropped a bombshell when she told reporters, that “absolutely inappropriate” actions were undertaken by “front-line people” located in Cincinnati who went rogue and searched out groups with “Tea Party” and “Patriot” in their tax exemption applications and then put those groups through a special, intrusive process. Now we have learned that Lerner knew about the... Continue Reading
Filed in: Free Speech | by Jay Sekulow | 12:56 PM May. 14, 2013
Washington D.C. IRS Office Continued Targeting Conservative Groups Last Month
The IRS’s spin continues to collapse. First they claimed the decision to target conservative groups came from low-level employees in one office. But yesterday we released documents proving that IRS inquiries came from offices in California (Laguna Niguel and El Monte), Ohio, and Washington, D.C. But it gets worse. The IRS also claims it abandoned the probes, but the abuse is ongoing. This letter arrived last month, from a “tax law specialist” in D.C. regarding an Albuquer... Continue Reading
