Why Are Trump’s DOJ Appointees Protecting the IRS?

[rangerrebew]

Why Are Trump’s DOJ Appointees Protecting the IRS?

Various media sources have reported that federal District Court Judge Reggie Walton has ordered the IRS to finally respond to various legal requests for information and documents made by the conservative tea party organizations that sued the agency.

But the question that no one is asking is why that order was even necessary, and why the Justice Department, which is now supposedly under the control and authority of the new administration, hasn’t reversed its obstinate, inflexible, and stubborn defense of the IRS.

 
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[Oceander]

Because Trump doesn't really give a damn and there isn't enough inflammatory meat on those bones for him to bother about.

[Cripplecreek]

Because Trump doesn't really give a damn and there isn't enough inflammatory meat on those bones for him to bother about.

Trump set out to destroy tea party candidates before and now useful idiots have given him the tools to do it.

[Oceander]

Trump set out to destroy tea party candidates before and now useful idiots have given him the tools to do it.

I wouldn't give Trump that much credit.  He doesn't care because the IRS going after conservative groups is by now old news and doesn't provide much ego-juice when squeezed, so he's most likely content to simply allow the old process started under Obama to continue winding along on autopilot. He simply doesn't care. 

[Cripplecreek]

I wouldn't give Trump that much credit.  He doesn't care because the IRS going after conservative groups is by now old news and doesn't provide much ego-juice when squeezed, so he's most likely content to simply allow the old process started under Obama to continue winding along on autopilot. He simply doesn't care.

The tea party is pretty much collapsed now anyway.

[Oceander]

The tea party is pretty much collapsed now anyway.

Another reason why there's no vigorish in it for Trump. 

[Night Hides Not]

Because Trump doesn't really give a damn and there isn't enough inflammatory meat on those bones for him to bother about.

Trump likes bullies, he relates well to them.

[The_Reader_David]

Why?  Because the guild-interests of the managerial class trump any notion of public service or rule of law.  Bureaucrats don't attack other bureaucrats.