The weaponization of the IRS to suppress the organization of conservative nonprofits when the Tea Party movement was in full bloom remains an open sore on our democratic political system.  The weight of the most feared agency of the federal government was used to suppress a political movement.  Despite the payment of millions of taxpayer dollars to groups that were prevented from getting their status approved because their politics were disagreeable to the incumbent president and his supporters in the federal bureaucracy, the damage cannot be undone, and the perpetrators have suffered no judicial consequences.  Lois Lerner, the point woman who invoked the Fifth Amendment in her testimony before Congress, was able to retire with a fat pension and no jail time. Even worse, the testimony she gave in deposition in a key lawsuit remains sealed by the order of a judge who heard claims of Lerner and her deputy Holly Paz that they had received threats. Judicial...(Read Full Post)