Holder, Treasury Secretary sued along with IRS

Washington Times:
More than two dozen conservative groups sued the IRS, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew on Wednesday accusing them of slow-walking approval of the groups’ tax-exempt status and, in some cases, for disclosing private information.

The lawsuit, filed by the American Center for Law and Justice in a federal court in Washington, demands the IRS be forced to recognize the groups and to find IRS officials violated the groups’ constitutional rights.

“The IRS and the federal government are not going to get away with this unlawful targeting of conservative groups,” said Jay Sekulow, chief lawyer for ACLJ.

Last week another conservative-run group, True the Vote, also sued seeking to force the IRS to approve its application.

An auditor’s report released earlier this month found that IRS officials wrongly singled out conservative groups’ applications to special scrutiny and asked inappropriate probing questions of the groups.

Some of the groups say their information was also illegally disclosed by the IRS, constituting a further violation of their rights.

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Bringing Holder in will give the groups a means of finding out how other agencies were sent to audit them.  The discovery in this case could be epic.  I suspect we are only just beginning to see this type of litigation against the government and it may spread to individual employees of the IRS.  It will be interesting to see whether the DOJ has to hire outside counsel to defend them.

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