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Major GOP donor Sheldon Adelson scrutinized by IRS
Sean Higgins
Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013
You may remember the name Sheldon Adelson from the 2012 election. He was the casino mogul who donated $20 million to Newt Gingrich’s campaign. He’s been a generous donor to other conservative groups and causes. He donated at least $53 million in the last election, according to Forbes. Other...
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AG Eric Holder in ’08: There is ‘no tension’ between fighting terrorism and honoring civil liberties
Sean Higgins
Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013
Cnsnews.com highlights a speech Attorney General Eric Holder gave to the American Constitution Society in 2008. It’s message stands in a marked contrast to the news that the Justice Department under Holder secretly obtained phone records (including the cell and home phone number...
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Sean Higgins: Perez snubs Congress he wants to confirm him
Sean Higgins
Published: Mon, May 13, 2013
Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights, is set to have his nomination as secretary of labor voted on by a Senate committee Thursday. One question the senators might want to ask before they vote: Why is Perez ignoring a congressional subpoena? Last month, Republicans led by...
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Walmart again files lawsuit against grocery workers union
Sean Higgins
Published: Tue, May 14, 2013
Walmart filed a lawsuit last week against the United Food and Commercial Workers and group the union runs called OURWalmart, alleging the two have been staging illegal protests at the retail giant’s California stores. The suit claims the union activists were trespassing on the stores,...
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Treasury workers union mum on IRS scandal
Sean Higgins
Published: Tue, May 14, 2013
Washington Post Federal Diary columnist Joe Davidson today looks at the question of who at the Internal Revenue Service might take the blame for the agency’s targeting of Tea Party groups. One group that isn’t talking? The union that represents those workers: In cases like these, there’s...
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Flashback: In 2010, White House divulged Koch Industries tax info
Sean Higgins
Published: Mon, May 13, 2013
Amid the revelations that the Internal Revenue Service targeted Tea Party groups for audits and that it improperly turned over unpublished information to the investigative news organization ProPublica, it is useful to remember a September, 2010 incident in which the administration divulged...
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IRS sent unpublished info on conservative groups to investigative news outfit
Sean Higgins
Published: Mon, May 13, 2013
ProPublica, a left-leaning nonprofit organization that does investigative journalism, often sharing it with outlets like the Washington Post, offers its own revelation on the news that the Internal Revenue Service was targeting Tea Party groups. It was the recipient of some of the IRS documents....
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Issa: 'Top Obama Administration officials increasingly see themselves as above the law'
Sean Higgins
Published: Mon, May 13, 2013
In a statement emailed to reporters, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., had the following reaction to the news that the Justice Department secretly obtained Associated Press phone records: This is obviously disturbing. Coming within a week of...
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Vitter calls for 'full audit' of IRS
Sean Higgins
Published: Mon, May 13, 2013
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., said in a statement mailed to reporters: The news of the IRS bias is terribly unsettling. If the IRS is discriminating against religious and conservative campaign groups, how can we trust it to objectively run Obamacare? An apology isn’t enough, and I’ll be going...
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House Oversight Committee: Thomas Perez still not complying with subpoena over emails
Sean Higgins
Published: Mon, May 13, 2013
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., sent a letter last week demanding that Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, the administration’s top civil rights enforcer, turn over all private...
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