To conservatives, the IRS’s scrutiny of groups according to their names and mission statements between 2010 and 2012 put the weight of its enforcement power on the Democrats’ side of the ledger. “I think that if you look at the IRS scandal, we see that the left will stop at nothing to thwart the conservative […]
In a case concerning the politicization of the IRS, people serving at the pleasure of the President at DOJ cannot be trusted to conduct an independent investigation because there is a conflict of interest. For example, if the investigation were to lead to the White House, should someone appointed by (or essentially working for) President […]
David Bossie, president of Citizens United, said the IRS scandal is a “clear example of the Chicago-style, win-at-all-costs politics that Obama brought to Washington.” Bossie said Obama set the tone for targeting political critics when he criticized the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which barred the government from limiting corporate spending to influence election campaigns. […]
Meanwhile, outside of Congress, the president of Citizens United, a conservative organization at the center of the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision, reacted with anger at the suggestion by Pelosi that the court case was at least partly at fault for IRS conduct. “Nancy Pelosi and her liberal allies’ obsession with the Citizens United Supreme Court […]
David N. Bossie, president of Citizens United, the group that brought the initial lawsuit that the Supreme Court ruled on, said Monday Mrs. Pelosi should go after the IRS, not conservative groups. “It appears that the left will stop at nothing in its quest to silence those who believe differently than them,” Mr. Bossie said […]
David Bossie, executive director of Citizen’s United, the organization that brought the case against the FEC, said the new information should prompt a full congressional investigation. “The IRS clearly saw the Citizens United case as a catalyst to go after conservative groups in the lead-up to President Obama’s re-election,” Bossie said in a statement. “The […]
Washington, DC — Citizens United President David N. Bossie issued the following statement in response to Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi’s statement blaming the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision on the apparent IRS’s abuse of power against conservative organizations. “Nancy Pelosi and her liberal allies’ obsession with the Citizens United Supreme Court case has reached […]
“The revelations revealed today that the IRS was targeting conservative groups during the 2012 elections is shocking,” said David Bossie, president of Citizen’s United, the 501(c)4 organization that touched off much of the recent controversy over these groups’ role in political elections. “The politicization of the IRS cannot be tolerated by the American people. To […]
Americans get a two-day reprieve from the Tax Man this year due to April 15th falling on a Sunday and the following day being a Washington, D.C. holiday. The deadline to file federal taxes is April 17th, a day which many Americans dread and Big Government relishes. The old saying that death and taxes are […]
The editors of the Wall Street Journal call out the IRS for going after campaign donors, saying, “A tax probe of donations given by a specific class of political donors is a boldfaced attempt to punish and discourage political speech”: We’re starting to see a pattern here. Since the Supreme Court restored the First Amendment […]