re: Obama Justice Department Was Involved In IRS Targeting

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You can call it political but I view it more as a human tragedy.

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The Cherokee leadership hoped the decision would persuade the federal government to intervene against Georgia and end the talk of removal. Georgia ignored the Supreme Court's ruling, refused to release the missionaries, and continued to press the federal government to remove the Cherokees. President Jackson did not enforce the decision against the state and instead called on the Cherokees to relocate or fall under Georgia's jurisdiction. (Although Jackson is widely quoted as saying, "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it," his actual words to Brigadier General John Coffee were: "The decision of the supreme court has fell still born, and they find that it cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate.")

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The POTUS and the State of Georgia ignored a Supreme Court ruling and forcibly removed a group of people off their land and forced them out. Then forced them to march out west killing many along the way. While I agree that the IRS scandal might potentially be the worst in recent history, it in no way compares to what Andrew Jackson managed to do as POTUS.

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