Eric Holder, IRS officials served as personal advisers to tax-exempt black ministers on how to engage in political activity

 The Daily Caller reports on highly partisan activity by two major institutions in our federal government. 

“[The CBC] had the IRS members there specifically to advise them on
how far to go campaigning without violating their tax-exempt status,”
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley told The Daily Caller.


“I viewed the meeting as highly problematic. Eric Holder
heads the agency that prosecutes organizations who give false
information to the government. The Justice Department coordinates with
the IRS on actions taken against not-for-profits. These ministries are
given not-for-profit status on the basis that they are not engaging in
any political activities. Here, the Obama administration was clearly
encouraging them to maximize their efforts by showing them where the
lines were drawn in federal case law,” Turley said.


“It is a fundamental precept that cabinet members should not engage in political activities.
The most important of those cabinet members would be the attorney
general of the United States. To have the attorney general actively
advising political allies of the president showed remarkably poor
judgment on his part,” Turley told TheDC.

“I believe this session undermined the integrity of the justice
department, signaled to other Justice Department officials that the
attorney general wants to support these black ministries as much as
possible,” Turley said.

One thought on “Eric Holder, IRS officials served as personal advisers to tax-exempt black ministers on how to engage in political activity

  1. Bruce

    The IRS scandal reminds me of JFK’s Ideological Organizations Project. I wonder if there’s a precedent for IRS officials and the Attorney General coaching tax-exempt organizations on how to engage in partisan political activity?

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