Will the Trump Justice Department do what the Obama Justice Department refused to do? House Republicans wrote a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions requesting that DoJ open an investigation into the IRS program that targeted conservative groups.  The Obama administration refused to hold anyone accountable for the illegal practice. Specifically, Republicans want the Department of Justice to look into the actions taken by Lois Lerner, who led the tax-exempt division of the IRS during the scandal. Washington Free Beacon: Lois Lerner, who headed the tax-exempt status division of the IRS at the time, confessed in 2013 at an American Bar Association meeting that conservative groups were targeted on political beliefs, but blamed low-level employees for the targeting. That same month, Lerner pleaded the fifth at the Oversight and Government Reform House committee. In 2014, the House Ways and Means committee voted to send a letter to the Justice Department...(Read Full Post)