This just in tonight, an IRS source in the agency’s Cincinnati office says that Lois Lerner, one of the officials at the center of the IRS scandal, has been placed on administrative leave (with pay). From National Review Online: Lerner on Thursday afternoon sent an...
Lois Lerner, the IRS head of exempt organizations division, will invoke the fifth amendment this week rather than answer questions about the recent IRS scandal, according to a letter sent to Congress by her attorney. Lerner was scheduled to answer questions from the House Oversight...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on May 19, 201313 Comments
Oh come on, all you. Really. How could anyone think differently? Anyone? Buhler? John Kass, IRS scandal a reminder of how I learned about The Chicago Way (h/t @bryanjacoutot): I didn’t understand it all back then, but I understand it now. Once there were old...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on May 18, 201310 Comments
At congressional hearings yesterday, it was revealed that the IRS planted a question at an ABA meeting in order to give Lois Lerner of the IRS the opportunity to get ahead of the pending Inspector General Report and make it seem as if the IRS had voluntarily...
With so much news breaking on the IRS scandal in the wake of recent revelations that the agency unfairly targeted conservative groups, we’ve rounded up links to some of the most relevant coverage on the topic for Legal Insurrection readers. We start with big news...
Posted by Leslie Eastman
on May 14, 201322 Comments
Hollywood couldn’t have scripted it better: A rebel group of engaged activists, derided and harassed by authorities, becomes the obsession of a powerful political machine, leading to the demise of … the machine. Now, because today’s Internal Revenue Service scandal involves rebellious conservatives pitted against...
Posted by David Gerstman
on May 12, 201324 Comments
This morning Prof Jacobson observed IRS reaped hatred of Tea Party sown by Democrats and the media. A Tweeter responded: @leginsurrection Douthat makes the same point, in a NYer’s version of the argument nytimes.com/2013/05/12/opi… — Tampa (@S1CT) May 12, 2013 Indeed. Douthat laid out the...
Robin Kelly, newly elected Democrat Congresswoman in Jesse Jackson, Jr’s Illinois district, has already cast two votes. But, a few hours after these votes, she could not answer when a radio host asked her for what she voted. In an interview Friday on local Chicago...
Posted by Leslie Eastman
on February 16, 201335 Comments
When Professor Jacobson reported that cancer funding research had been used to smear the Tea Party, calling it a tool of a big tobacco and the Koch brothers based on plans hatched over a decade ago, I had one thought: Anti-Tea Party advocates suffer from the...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on January 19, 201353 Comments
It’s sad to see Colin Powell, appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State by Republican Presidents, continuing to attack Republicans as racist: While continuing to identify as a Republican, former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday criticized the GOP for a series...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on December 30, 201219 Comments
From our friends Down Under at The Catallaxy Files, reports of Tea Party Derangement Syndrome, He believes it but does anyone else? (emphasis mine): WAYNE Swan has blamed the conservative Tea Party movement in the US for damaging the global economy and contributing to the...
Posted by Leslie Eastman
on December 29, 20125 Comments
As is traditional with the season, the end of the year is a chance to look back and reflect on the events that occurred over the past 365 days. And what a year it has been! Here are some stories, beyond the election and the...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on December 05, 201219 Comments
Short answer, Yes. But please keep reading, anyway. I have pointed out many times that we should not be fooled into siding with large corporations just because the left claims to hate them. The enemy of our enemy is not always our friend. We saw...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on December 01, 201279 Comments
Grover Norquist is predicting a second, even larger Tea Party wave, via Breibart.com (h/t Instapundit): “We are about to have a Tea Party second wave that will dwarf the first wave and that is because while ‘spend too much’ brought the Tea Party into existence,...