On Voting Republicans Out Of Office

Do you seriously believe the Clintons are in the 1%. That's bullshit. Prove it.

Obama and IRS Worst Nightmare: Judge Emmet G. Sullivan

Obama and the IRS’s worst nightmare has come true. The Judicial Watch lawsuit against the IRS drew Judge Emmit Sullivan. The name may not be familiar to you, but anyone who tracks his cases can tell you he’s tough but fair. Fair is the last thing Obama wants. The IRS ditto. The IRS will now have to explain to the judge why they did not tell the court the emails were missing.

Now, I know what you are thinking. It doesn’t matter what the judge does, Obama will ignore him. Uh uh. Judge Sullivan does not like people playing games in his court. He presided over the case of the DOJ vs Sen. Ted Stevens. When he found out about the prosecutors hiding exculpatory evidence against Stevens, he immediately vacated his conviction, then appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the three prosecutors and the DOJ.

Didn’t know some judges have the power to name a special prosecutor? They do, but usually they don’t. Judge Sullivan has and will. He is livid about the IRS withholding information about the emails. When Judicial Watch laid out their case and the IRS laid out theirs, everyone expected it to take at least a week if not weeks before the judge would decide to hear the case. It took him all of two hours and I suspect that included his lunch hour.

The judge may at his discretion appoint a Special Prosecutor with wide ranging powers granted by the judge. He can order the IRS, the DOJ, and possibly even the White House to cooperate fully. If they fail to do so, he can summarily put them in jail until they agree to cooperate. In the case of the three prosecutors, it was determined that two of the prosecutors were responsible but they could not prove intent. Nonetheless they were both suspended without pay. One for 15 days and one for 45 days.

He is somewhat limited. He can not have Obama locked up, but Holder and Koskinen are fair game. He can force Lerner to testify to the special prosecutor on the missing emails. She can claim the fifth, but that’s the same as an admission of guilt. Contrary to Lerner’s statement to the Oversight Committee, the Fifth Amendment is not to protect the innocent, it’s to protect the guilty. It’s illegal to claim the Fifth to avoid testifying, unless you are withholding self incriminating testimony.

However, Judge Sullivan could rule that since Lerner supposedly answered questions asked by the Justice Department, she is ineligible to claim the Fifth.

Neither the IRS nor the Justice Department can refuse to make witnesses available to the prosecution. That would be contempt of court. It would also make Judge Sullivan very angry, and by all accounts, that is not something you want to do.

Judge Sullivan wasted no time setting a date of July 10th to hear the case. It would not be wise for the IRS to ask for a postponement. And slipping a coverup past him is like trying to sneak a steak past a pit bull.

Bill O'Reilly

Congressman Cummings Hated the IRS Before Obama, Suddenly He Loves It

Back in 1997, Cummings was telling the media that the agency was a threat to the people and said that the IRS was a “horror story” to the rest of us..

“All of us pay taxes,” Cummings said. “Many of us share a paralyzing fear that we have made a mistake when we file our tax return by the April deadline. We have all heard the horror stories of the dreaded audit or the mistake made by the IRS and the years it took to fix it.”

There were contempt charges filed against Lerner. So you can't say no charges have been files.

Weren't you one of the people who were all upset and George Zimmerman for destroying an IPad that "might" have had video of him being threatening?

Are you suggesting that the head of the IRS is an IT professional? IT is IT. It's pretty basic and the same across most of the US and world. You have Servers, PCs, switches and routers.

He can order the IRS, the DOJ, and possibly even the White House to cooperate fully. If they fail to do so, he can summarily put them in jail until they agree to cooperate.

No, it's not true cj.

**** all over the US Constitution

BOOM, BABY: Federal Court Grants Hearing on IRS Email Destruction

Judicial Watch today filed a Motion for Status Conference, and within hours was granted a hearing in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to confer about the emails of Lois Lerner and other IRS officials, which were the subject of longstanding Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and a lawsuit, and which the IRS now claims to have “lost” (Judicial Watch v. IRS(No. 1:13-cv–1559)). The hearing is scheduled for July 10.

Leaked Lib Megadonor Doc: 'Fundamentally Change Our Current Political System'
62-page briefing book details $374 million in spending during midterm election cycle.

The media are quick to criticize right wing donors, particularly Charles and David Koch, but they rarely report on the vast network of liberal donors. The Democracy Alliance even referenced the Koch brothers, with no apparent hint at irony. After talking about the "pronounced financial advantage" of conservatives, the briefing book assured liberals that "[w]hat progressives have is a strong infrastructure - built up and supported by Democracy Alliance (DA) Partners and other allied funders - that is innovative, collaborative, and deeply invested in mobilizing the key constituencies that will constitute the new American majority."

Groups profiled by the Democracy Alliance, with funding amounts. The number of Democracy Alliance partners supporting each organization is in parentheses.

America Votes: $3.16 million (24 partners supporting)
American Constitution Society $1.19 million (18 partners supporting)
Black Civic Engagement Fund: $900.000 (3 partners supporting)
Brennan Center for Justice: $2.6 million (32 partners supporting)
Catalist, LLC: $1.18 million (9 partners supporting)
Center for American Progress: $3.3 million (26 partners supporting)
Center for Community Change: $2.15 million (17 partners supporting)
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: $1.91 million (27 partners supporting)
Common Purpose Project: $130,000 (5 partners supporting)
Fund for the Republic: $1.39 million (14 partners supporting)
Latino Engagement Fund: $1.89 million (15 partners supporting)
Media Matters for America: $2.7 million (33 partners supporting)
New Media Ventures: $330,000 (14 partners supporting)
New Organizing Institute: $440,000 (13 partners supporting)
Organizing for Action: $650,000 (10 partners supporting)
Progressive Majority: $600,000 (13 partners supporting)
ProgressNow: $1.8 million (31 partners supporting)
State Engagement Initiative: (created through a partnership with the Committee on States)
State Voices: $1.44 million (20 partners supporting)
Youth Engagement Fund $240,000 (14 partners supported)