Judge Rules Trump’s Defense of IRS-ICE Agreement Is “Weak Sauce”
The panel said the IRS violated federal privacy law and rejected the administration’s appeal, leaving in place a halt on sharing addresses with immigration agents.
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'Weak sauce': Federal judge bench slaps Trump lawyers
On Tuesday, a federal judge slapped down a claim argued by attorneys for the Trump administration, calling the assertion “weak sauce.” The incident emerged amidst an ongoing fight between the administration and the Center for Taxpayer Rights over whether the IRS illegally provided data for over 40,000 taxpayers to the Department of Homeland Security as part of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort.The case stems back to a letter issue…
JUST IN: OBAMA-APPOINTED JUDGES RULE AGAINST IRS SHARING TAXPAYER DATA WITH DHS
An Obama-appointed D.C. Circuit panel ruled that the IRS acted unlawfully when it shared some taxpayer information with DHS during the Trump administration’s deportation push. Judge Cornelia Pillard sharply criticized the IRS’s legal argument as...
Trump DOJ's 'weak sauce' excuse trashed by court as IRS move 'flies in the face' of law
A federal appeals court rejected the Justice Department's defense of an IRS program that gave immigration agents tens of thousands of taxpayer addresses in violation of a post-Watergate privacy law.A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued the decision Tuesday, upholding a November order that halted the program.The IRS built the system last summer to answer a request from Immigration and Customs…
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