Washington Free Beacon - Tea Party Groups Plan Lawsuit

By Lachlan Markay, FreeBeacon.com

Tea Party groups who were illicitly targeted for heightened scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service plan to sue the agency, even as its acting director resigns and the Justice Department considers criminal prosecutions.

Members of a host of Tea Party groups gathered at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday to speak out against what some characterized as a near-dictatorial abuse of power designed to silence conservative voices.

Jordan Sekulow, policy director of conservative public interest law firm the American Center for Law and Justice, said he will be taking legal action against the IRS in the next few days on behalf of groups that were improperly targeted.

Seventeen ACLJ clients are ready to file suit against the IRS, he said.

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