AMERICAN THINKER
by Thomas Lifson
June 20, 2015

…The pro-Israel organization Z STREET was today, once again, vindicated in a court of law in its now nearly five year effort to redress the violation of its Constitutional rights by the Internal Revenue Service….In a unanimous Opinion issued Friday, June 19, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with and affirmed the D.C. District Court’s ruling that the pro-Israel organization Z STREET correctly brought a lawsuit alleging the Internal Revenue Service violated Z STREET’s First Amendment rights by engaging in viewpoint discrimination…A turnaround time of 6 weeks in an appeal like this is rather speedy, and the unanimous opinion is a rebuke to the IRS. The May 4 oral arguments were extraordinary, with the IRS virtually laughed out of court. The written opinion reinforces the vehemence of the rejection. I have called the case Z Street v. Koskinen “the sleeper case that could bust open the IRS scandals,” because it threatens to uncover the internal processes of the agency, revealing how it makes its decisions. READ MORE