Justice Kagan Temporarily Blocks a Jan. 6 Committee Subpoena – The Case for Impeaching Obama
Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department employees have all been subpoenaed for grand jury testimony. These subpoenas are part of the IRS scandal, uncovered as part of Judicial Watch’s ongoing campaign to expose and stop IRS abuse.
The New York Times reported that Judicial Watch “is likely to issue the first subpoena in a broad effort to obtain the testimony of more than 50 witnesses including nine aides to President Obama and his top aides, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman.”
Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch have been pursuing this matter, the Times said in their report. And Judicial Watch is fighting what they call “an unprecedented and unprecedented” abuse of the IRS and Treasury Department in the wake of the scandal. “This is a major step forward that signals the IRS scandal is being taken seriously by the Justice Department, the House and the Senate, and as a result the American people,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “This subpoena is an extremely significant one and it is sure to be granted in full.”
In a letter to the U.S. District Judge, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said, “The Committee believes that the documents requested by the IRS may contain information that could be essential to the Committee’s investigation of the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, and the Committee therefore requests that the Government produce them during the course of the Committee’s investigation.”
The House panel called the subpoena a “non-curable” one because it did not give any “specific date and time during which the Government will surrender the sought documents.”
Judicial Watch and other groups are using every avenue to force the release of the requested documents. That’s their motivation for the lawsuit Judicial Watch filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court in DC.
“As soon as we received this subpoena we filed a motion to quash it, which was granted by the Court last Friday.” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “That brings us one step closer to the grand jury testimony we’ve been seeking for many weeks now.”
“The only thing Judge Kohlstein was