Justice Department Agrees To Pay Tea Party Victims In Obama IRS Targeting Scandal
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Date: October 26, 2017 02:37PM
Justice Department Agrees To Pay Tea Party Victims In Obama IRS Targeting Scandal
11:59 AM 10/26/2017
President Donald Trump’s administration settled two class action lawsuits filed by conservative “Tea Party” groups alleging former President Barack Obama’s Department of Justice discriminated against them due to their ideological commitments.
The DOJ reached an undisclosed monetary settlement with over 400 conservative groups that had their applications for tax exempt status delayed “based solely on their viewpoint or ideology,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday.
“The [Internal Revenue Service]’s use of these criteria as a basis for heightened scrutiny was wrong and should never have occurred,” Sessions said in a statement Thursday. “It is improper for the IRS to single out groups for different treatment based on their names or ideological positions.”