The IRS: Speech Cop

Julian Sanchez | February 11, 2005

A story I'd meant to link earlier this week: The NAACP is declining to turn over documents to the IRS, which (apparently at the request of two members of Congress) is investigating the civil rights group. At issue is a speech in which Chariman Julian Bond criticized George Bush for declining an invitation to speak at the group's convention. If that's ruled too partisan, it could jeopardize the group's tax exempt status, though an expert on non-profit tax law cited in the linked story doesn't seem to think the IRS has much of a case here.