{"id":25333,"date":"2015-04-08T16:38:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T20:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25333"},"modified":"2015-04-08T16:38:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T20:38:17","slug":"sometimes-justice-is-a-slow-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25333","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes Justice Is A Slow Process"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, The Daily Signal<\/a> reported that Federal District Court Judge<\/a> Susan Dlott<\/a> granted a motion to compel and ordered the IRS to produce the names of the 298 targeted organizations identified by the IRS for the Treasury Inspector General<\/a>. Last week U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia<\/a>, Ronald Machen<\/a> disclosed the Justice Department<\/a>‘s decision not to charge Lois Lerner with of Congress<\/a>. This latest decision at least allows the probe of wrong doing by the Internal Revenue Service<\/a> to continue.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

…the plaintiffs have been trying through the discovery process to identify all of the conservative organizations unfairly targeted by the IRS so that they can seek class certification<\/a>. If they can convince Judge Dlott to certify a class, then the lawsuit would expand from the ten original plaintiffs to all <\/em>of the organizations on Lois Lerner\u2019s hit list. This would greatly expand the risks to, and potential liability of, the government.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But the IRS, in a fitting bit of irony, refused to turn over the names of the organizations whose applications were mishandled, claiming that would violate the confidentiality requirements of Section 6103.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On April 1, in what must have seemed a cruel April Fool\u2019s joke to the Justice Department lawyers handling the case, Judge Dlott denied a protective order sought by Justice Department to prevent the IRS from being forced to turn over this information. She pointed out that Section 6103 has an exemption for tax information \u201cdirectly related to an issue in\u201d a judicial proceeding. Since the identity of all of the targeted organizations \u201cis directly related to the issue of class certification in this federal court proceeding,\u201d she granted the plaintiffs\u2019 motion to compel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the article, the IRS will be forced to turn over:<\/p>\n