Monthly Archives: May 2013
“Scandal Could Change How IRS Regulates Political Groups”
“There Is No Good Fix for the IRS Tea Party Problem”
Josh Barro for Bloomberg View.
“IRS Scandal Could Blunt Potency Of Campaign Finance Reform”
“The Dignity of the South”
Joey Fishkin has posted this draft on SSRN (Yale L.J. Online). Here is the abstract:
The plaintiffs in Shelby County v. Holder argue that section 5 of the Voting Rights Act should be struck down because it offends the “equal… Continue reading
“For Tax-Exempt Groups, How Much Politics Is Too Much?”
Peter Overby reports for NPR.
Nate Silver: IRS Story Could Have Political Legs in 2014
I agree with this.
“IRS: Top official first told of targeting in 2012”
AP: “The Internal Revenue Service says acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller was first informed in May 2012 that tea party groups were inappropriately targeted for scrutiny. A month later he wrote a member of Congress to explain the… Continue reading
“Levin-McCain statement on IRS investigation”
“The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has been for several months examining on a bipartisan basis whether the IRS has adequately enforced rules regarding the extent to which tax exempt nonprofit 501(c)4 groups engage in partisan politics. We had tentatively planned… Continue reading
“Jungle Primary Angst for California Democratic Consultants | Shop Talk”
Verrrrrry interesting:
The fallout in the consulting world from two obscure local races continues to reverberate in the Golden State political world. At issue is the involvement of Democratic consultants in two 2012 Democrat-vs.-Democrat California Assembly general-election campaigns.
Two… Continue reading
ABC News Posts Some of the Leaked TIGTA Report on IRS Tea Party Mess
Here.
Democracy 21 Statement Calls IRS “Dead Wrong” to Target Conservative Groups, But….
notice the almost exclusive focus on the other wrongs Democracy 21 has called out in the past, and no endorsement of hearings on the targeting of conservative groups: [NOTE: See update at end of post.]
Statement of Democracy 21 President… Continue reading
“What Does the IRS Scandal Have to Do with SuperPAC’s?”
I spoke with Warren Olney on “To the Point” about the IRS Mess (listen at 1:42 mark).