Congress Can Pry Open a Clammed-Up IRS
The agency pleads that it can’t share the documents that it may have shared illegally because that would be illegal. by Charles Lipson • Wall Street…
Obama’s IRS Faces Scrutiny with New Congress
by The Washington Times The corruption of the Internal Revenue Service is still under investigation, but the public has learned a lot already: The IRS targeted conservative and tea party…
IRS defies order to turn over tax documents
by Editorial Board • Las Vegas Review-Journal Back in February, President Barack Obama said the apparent targeting of conservative organizations by the IRS was not illegal or politically…
Targeting the Constitution
by Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz • Washington Post It is now well known that the IRS targeted tea party organizations. What is less well known, but perhaps…
Covering for the IRS
New details on the Administration’s spin and stall strategy. Wall Street Journal The IRS targeting of conservative groups has now become a story about the cover-up. More than a year…
Why was Lois Lerner’s Blackberry was wiped clean?
by T. Becket Adams • Washington Examiner As lawmakers return to Washington to continue the search for thousands of missing subpoenaed emails related to the Internal Revenue Service’s…
Judge Demands Answers after IRS Contradicts Sworn Testimony on Lerner’s Scratched Hard Drive
by Patrick Howley • Daily Caller U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan Thursday ordered the Internal Revenue Service to come up with new answers after IRS employees…
IRS Scandal: Not Phony
by the Editorial Board • Detroit News President Barack Obama continues to describe the growing evidence that the IRS intentionally targeted conservative groups as a phony…
IRS experts: Lois Lerner hard drive was just ‘scratched’ — not damaged beyond recovery
by Byron York Top IRS officials told congressional investigators that Lois Lerner’s hard drive — the one containing emails that could shed light on the IRS targeting scandal — was…
Questions for Obamacare Now
by Megan McArdle Yesterday, I outlined what we knew about Halbig v. Burwell, the case in which a federal appellate court ruled that subsidies for purchasing insurance under Obamacare can…
Federal Court Strikes Down Obamacare Subsidies in 36 States
by Susan Jones A federal court on Tuesday struck down health insurance subsidies for people in the 36 states that did not set up their own Obamacare exchanges. The ruling…
No, Halbig Did Not Gut Obamacare Because Of A “Drafting Error”
Reading is fundamental, unless you’re a liberal blogger. by Sean Davis Words mean things. That was the message delivered by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in yesterday’s Halbig opinion.…
Tea party groups’ suit against IRS moves forward
Tea party groups’ lawsuit against IRS over reported extra scrutiny moves forward by Amanda Lee Myers A federal judge has allowed a lawsuit by 10 tea party groups to move…
Courts Should End Lerner’s Illegal Instant Message Trick
by Phil Kerpen It was so brazen. Right there, over email, Lois Lerner warned her colleagues “Congress has asked for emails… so we need to be cautious about what we…
More “smidgens” of IRS corruption
by Ed Rogers Anyone paying attention to the Internal Revenue Service scandal has been waiting for the next smidgen to drop. Well, two more hit pretty hard this week. At…