FREEDOM LINE BLOG: Ashton Right, Mukasey Off (Slightly)
I agree with Ashton that it is a bad idea -- an awful idea -- to have the DoJ's Civil Rights Division…
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Ashton Right, Mukasey Off (Slightly)

I agree with Ashton that it is a bad idea -- an awful idea -- to have the DoJ's Civil Rights Division investigate the IRS scandal. I also agree with Ashton that in the short run, the best thing of all is to keep letting Congress (and the press) investigate this outrage, and let the body politic be the judge. In fact, that's what Andy McCarthy argues today at National Review Online, with superb reasoning:

The Framers would have been astounded at the notion that Congress’s responsibility to ensure the proper working of government could be delegated to an unaccountable prosecutor. The paramount question is whether the government is out of control, not whether some mid-level official (or even a higher official) can be convicted by a jury.

Indeed, I think there is some agreement between Mukasey…[more]

May 23, 2013 • 10:22 am
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Week of March 14th 2013
Which of the following notable U.S. events did not take place on March 15?
Construction began on the world’s highest vehicular tunnel
President Johnson called for passage of the Voting Rights Act
The FBI debuted its 10 Most Wanted List
Maine was admitted into the Union
Week of March 7th 2013
Which one of the following statements is true regarding limiting debate on the floor of the U.S. Senate or House of Representatives?
Only Senate rules allow for a filibuster
Both House and Senate rules allow the filibuster
Only House leadership can filibuster
Neither House nor Senate rules address limiting debate
Week of February 27th 2013
The first override of a presidential veto in American history took place during the administration of which one of the following U.S. Presidents?
George Washington
Franklin Pierce
John Tyler
Franklin Roosevelt
Week of February 21st 2013
Data compiled by the U.S. Department of Energy for 2011 ranked the United States in what place among the world’s top oil producing countries?
Third
Fifth
Tenth
Below Tenth
Week of February 14th 2013
Which one of the following Presidents was the first to have the opposition party deliver a formal response to his State of the Union address?
Warren G. Harding
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
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"The Fifth Amendment privilege is not designed to protect the innocent. The innocent do not need protection from the truth (just from the IRS). The privilege is designed to protect the bedrock principle that the burden of proof is always on the government and, derivatively, that a person is never required to prove his innocence. (No surprise, I suppose, that an IRS official is unfamiliar with these…[more]
  
 
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review Institute Senior Fellow and Former Assistant U.S. Attorney
— Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review Institute Senior Fellow and Former Assistant U.S. Attorney
 
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