IRS SCANDAL UPDATE: Tea party groups win Round 1 in court as federal judge demands IRS’s list of all 298 conservative nonprofits it targeted. “The decision from U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott means right-wing groups are a step closer to being allowed to pursue a class-action lawsuit against the IRS. The agency has admitted playing political favorites with the tax code beginning in 2010, when it began applying extra scrutiny to groups with red-flag words like ‘patriots’ or ‘tea party’ in their names. While those organizations’ applications were held up for years, liberal groups sailed through the process.”

Perhaps the Congress could award them compensation via legislation.