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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Judge orders IRS to clear tea party application backlog within month

2016-10-17

[Wash Times] A federal judge has ordered the IRS to finally clean up the tea party targeting mess, giving the tax agency less than a month to decide on a handful of applications that are still pending more than three years after officials first admitted they were targeting the conservative groups and subjecting them to intrusive scrutiny.

The IRS also must file a brief detailing the steps it has taken to prevent further targeting and to make sure the tea party groups don’t face any more fallout from the stigma of having been singled out in the first place, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said in an order issued late Friday.

Judge Walton ordered final decisions on two applications that have been pending for years and said four other groups that had withdrawn their applications amid the unconstitutional targeting can resubmit and the IRS must decide on those, too, by Nov. 11.

The Albuquerque Tea Party, which filed its application in December 2009, has been waiting nearly seven years. Unite in Action, a Michigan-based group, applied in 2010.

Judge Walton called that "an exorbitant period of time" and said the IRS should have been able to act once it admitted it was targeting the groups.

"These determinations should have been made by now," he said at a hearing last week.

Posted by:Besoeker

#13 Damage is already done - they've been sidelined for 3+ years

Posted by: Lumpy the Weasel2674 2016-10-17 19:01

#12 Trump would have his candidacy tied up with IRS legal actions against him, big time, if he did that.

Better to get elected first.

Posted by: Zebulon and Tenille2425 2016-10-17 18:17

#11 Trump should have been banging the anti-IRS drum a lot more as part of his anti-government insurgency. The agency is weaponized and very un-American.

I'm not sure the plan but this is the time.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-10-17 14:45

#10 8 years too late.

Posted by: 49 pan 2016-10-17 14:12

#9 Nah, the judge probably got the O.K. from Hillary, because at this point, what difference does it make?

Posted by: Bobby 2016-10-17 12:45

#8 Issue a bench warrant for the miscreants and get it into the NCIC. If they ever get pulled over, they're in for a lot of fun.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-10-17 12:17

#7 That month will take them past Election Day, which strikes me as unreasonable. I hope the judge can arrange for baliffs to pick up the recalcitrant, should they not comply, and has other punishments in mind for so egregiously misbehaving for so long.

Posted by: trailing wife 2016-10-17 10:21

#6 I'm sure NBC news is, even as we speak, busily editing audio tapes to show just that G(r)o...

Posted by: CrazyFool 2016-10-17 10:15

#5 Count your blessings, they haven't started (yet) accusing opponents of pedophilia, Anakin.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-10-17 10:03

#4 I expect an IRS audit and charges of racketeering tomorrow.

Posted by: DarthVader 2016-10-17 09:40

#3 Expect news articles on Judge Walton's senility in tomorrow's papers.

Posted by: Glenmore 2016-10-17 09:33

#2 Koskinen and Lerner must be spewing coffee through their noses this morning.

Posted by: Besoeker 2016-10-17 09:26

#1 Again, to paraphrase Andrew Jackson, "the court has made its decision. Now let us see it enforce it."

Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2016-10-17 09:24

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