United States v. NorCal Tea Party Patriots

OPINION

KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge.

Among the most serious allegations a federal court can address aré that an Executive agency has targeted citizens for mistreatment based on their political views. No citizen — Republican or Democrat, socialist or libertarian — shtrald be targeted or even have to fear being targeted on those grounds. Yet those are the grounds on which the plaintiffs allege they were mistreated by. the IRS here. The allegations are substantial: most are drawn from findings made by the Treasury Department’s own Inspector General for Tax Administration. Those findings include that…