Trump DOJ's 'weak sauce' excuse trashed by court as IRS move 'flies in the face' of law

Trump DOJ's 'weak sauce' excuse trashed by court as IRS move 'flies in the face' of law
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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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