Judicial Watch continued its amazing success with investigative research and actual litigation. September 8, 2022, it, finally, received previously sealed (since 2017) court documents, including depositions of IRS officials Lois Lerner, former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit, and her top aide, Holly Paz, former IRS director of Office of Rulings and Agreements. They detail their biased memory lapses, along with Obama’s involvement in singling out, delay and deny the processing of conservative, especially Tea Party, non-profit group’s applications for tax-exempt status.
Lerner very much disliked the SCOTUS’s 2010 decision Citizens United vs. FEC decision, describing it as “by far the worst thing that has ever happened to this country”. Why? Because SCOTUS “held that the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditure for political campaigns by corporations, including non-profit corporations, labor unions and other associations”. Imagine that!
In 2012, Lerner directed her subordinates “to find a reason, other than political activity, to deny Tea Party applicants’ exemption under 501( c )3 to prevent them from challenging the exemption rules based on Citizens United. Tom Fitton (Judicial Watch) said, “Obama IRS abuse is the epitome of election interference. Given this largely unchecked abuse by the IRS, the Biden administration’s massive new expansion of the IRS should concern all citizens”. Call Democrats to lodge an objection to their on-going, U.S. Constitutionally-illegal voting record. In Montana, that would be the one pro-Obama, congressional representative, Jon Tester (202-224-2644).
