Why Kamala's Interview With a Muslim Influencer Went Off the Rails
One Dearborn Voter's Damning Observation About Kamala
This Video Out of California Shows Why Voter ID Laws Are Necessary
The Liberal Media Is Seething Right Now Heading Into Election Day
Election Day Is Not the Finish Line
Trump Has Reason in Pennsylvania to Feel Better Than Harris
Is It Too Early to Talk 2028?
RFK Jr.'s Final Pitch: 'Do NOT Vote for Me'
Go Vote: GOP Senator Predicts What the Country Would Look Like After the...
Trump's Closing Message to Voters
Do the Unrighteous Now Outnumber the Righteous in America?
Voter Turnout and Ballot Completion Is Everything
Texas Tells DOJ Election Monitors to Pound Sand
The Elites Are About to Hand Trump a Second Term
Kamala Harris’ Energy Policies Are More Extreme and Harmful Than Biden’s
Tipsheet

After Taking the Fifth, Lois Lerner Wants Immunity Over IRS Scandal

Surprise surprise. After making an opening statement during a congressional hearing weeks ago on the IRS targeting of conservative groups and then pleading the fifth, Lois Lerner wants immunity. As a reminder, Lerner is the head of tax exempt organizations for the IRS and admitted the agency inappropriately targeted conservative groups between 2010 and 2012 after being asked a planted question at a
Advertisement
conference. She has been put on paid administrative leave for the summer.

Embattled IRS official Lois Lerner will not testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee unless she’s given immunity from prosecution, her lawyer told POLITICO Tuesday.

“They can obtain her testimony tomorrow by doing it the easy way … immunity,” William W. Taylor III said in a phone interview. “That’s the way to resolve all of this.”

The comments reflect the hard-line approach Lerner, the former head of the IRS division that scrutinized conservative groups, and her legal team are taking in defending her role in the agency’s scandal.
The frustrating part of this whole thing is that unless Lerner is granted immunity 1) we won't get her testimony 2) we won't get the full truth about exactly what happened within the IRS when it came to targeting and the conservative BOLO list (be on the lookout) 3) the idea of holding anyone in
Advertisement
contempt has become a joke thanks to Attorney General Eric Holder.

Taylor, a founding partner of Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, is even shrugging off the possibility that the full House might vote to hold Lerner in contempt.

“None of this matters,” he said. “I mean, nobody likes to be held in contempt of Congress, of course, but the real question is one that we’re fairly confident about, and I don’t think any district judge in the country would hold that she waived.”


Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Townhall Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement