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Saturday, June 20, 2015

Hillary/State Dept. under gun of federal court scrutiny

Late last evening, Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch (JW), announced yet another victory in federal court for the government watchdog group. Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia announced that he is reopening the case concerning top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

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Friday, June 19, 2015

Federal judge orders IRS to court

In a late breaking development cited by Judicial Watch (JW), a federal judge has ordered the IRS to court. Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the IRS to appear before the court to answer for its delaying tactics and stonewalling. At issue is the ongoing Congressional investigation into the scandal during which the agency admitted it had delayed and at times harassed conservative and Tea Party groups that had sought tax exempt status prior to the 2012 election.

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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Dems join Repubs in voting to repeal Obamacare

The latest effort by House Republicans to repeal Obamacare garnered the support of 50 House Democrats. Even under the threat of a presidential veto, the Democrats opposed to the Affordable Care Act remained strong, with 46 adding their names to the bill that would dismantle key parts of the Obamacare law.

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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Judicial Watch makes next move in response to IRS stonewallling

In compliance with a direct federal court order to explain why the IRS has not provided key emails in the IRS/Lois Lerner scandal, the agency stated on June 12, 2015 that it possesses the emails but that it has withheld them to make sure there are no duplicates. As the IRS knows full well, the intent of the Judicial Watch (JW) lawsuit which led to the court order is not merely to acknowledge that is has the emails but that it intends to release them.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Judicial Watch issues statement on IRS emails

In two late breaking developments today, Judicial Watch (JW) announced that the IRS has informed JW that it has the subpoenaed emails it requested on the Lois Lerner/IRS scandal and that the IRS has found over 400 new Lerner emails that the agency says it didn't know existed. Congressional investigators believe the emails are key in discovering the whole truth about the IRS scandal, but it took a direct court order with a deadline of June 12, 2015 to get the IRS to comply.
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Monday, June 15, 2015

IRS misses court-ordered deadline to turn over Lerner emails

The IRS missed a court ordered June 12, 2015 deadline for turning over emails pertaining to the scandal in which the agency illegally harassed conservative, Tea Party, pro-Israeli, and Christian groups. The tactics were designed to thwart the groups' attempts to attain tax exempt status prior to the 2012 election. But liberal or so-called progressive groups were placed on the fast track. Read the rest here/