Posted on 05/13/2013 12:07:47 PM PDT by grundle
Tea party groups on Monday are threatening to sue the Internal Revenue Service after the agency admitted last week that it wrongly targeted conservative groups applying for nonprofit status.
“We are looking at it pretty seriously,” said Dan Backer, a lawyer who represents a half dozen conservative groups targeted by the IRS, including Combat Veterans Training Group and TheTeaParty.net. “Given the sheer scope of maleficence at the IRS, there may be a legal recourse.”
Backer said the IRS asked some of his clients for donor lists and extensive information from their Facebook pages.
The IRS said on Friday that it inappropriately subjected groups applying for nonprofit status to extra scrutiny if their applications included terms such as “tea party” or “patriot.”
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That's true to a large extent, but there still some decent federal judges out there (many appointed by Reagan) so the plaintiffs might get lucky.
geez, don’t the folks on the RIGHT learn anything from the enviro wackos and acorns?? If you sue, the gov agency will fold like a house of cards and give you way more money than you can imagine to “settle” then your lawyers can do it 5 more times and begin to support their favorite party. Wake up and follow a well used system. How do you think the sierra club and it’s friends are so rich??
All I can say is “Please do.” and invite the Jewish organizations and the Constitutional organizations to join you.
Make it MASSIVE!
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