{"id":13255,"date":"2015-05-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/tea-party-lawyer-mitchell-rips-congress-for-inaction-on-irs-scandal\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:59:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:59:51","slug":"tea-party-lawyer-mitchell-rips-congress-for-inaction-on-irs-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/tea-party-lawyer-mitchell-rips-congress-for-inaction-on-irs-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party Lawyer Mitchell Rips Congress for Inaction on IRS Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledge is protection when the IRS is involved. I&#039;m Darrin Mish, a tax attorney in Tampa with 32 years of experience representing taxpayers nationwide. Here&#039;s what I want you to understand.<\/p>\n<p>www.newsmax.com \u2014 It&#8217;s been two years since an inspector general&#8217;s report revealed the IRS had targeted tea party and <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/irs-awarded-one-conservative-group-tax-exempt-status-in-three-year-period\/\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"2257\">conservative groups<\/a> for extra scrutiny \u2013 but the lack of action since then also illustrates &#8220;Congress&#8217;s inability to exercise its constitutional oversight responsibilities,&#8221; lawyer Cleta Mitchell charges.<\/p>\n<p>In a blistering op-ed commentary in the Wall Street Journal Thursday night, Mitchell, who represents many tea party and conservative groups, says it&#8217;s time both the Obama administration and Congress do something to rectify the inaction.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/cleta-mitchell-irs-tea-party-targeting\/2015\/05\/14\/id\/644751\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tea Party Lawyer Mitchell Rips Congress for Inaction on IRS Scandal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out more <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/category\/irs-news\/\">IRS News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_map_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_address_compat show-address show-address-only\"><div class=\"rank-math-contact-section rank-math-contact-address\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_opening_hours_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledge is protection when the IRS is involved. I&#039;m Darrin Mish, a tax attorney in Tampa with 32 years of experience representing taxpayers nationwide. Here&#039;s what I want you to understand. www.newsmax.com \u2014 It&#8217;s been two years since an inspector general&#8217;s report revealed the IRS had targeted tea party and conservative groups for extra scrutiny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28666,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13255\/revisions\/28666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}