Not only was former Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Doug Shulman unaware that his former employees were improperly targeting conservative organizations under his watch, he doesn’t know what’s in the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution!
Shulman failed a mini U.S. history quiz given to him by Rep. Kerry Bentivolio (R-Mich.) during the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s hearing on the IRS controversy Wednesday, as he was unable to tell Bentivolio the rights given to Americans in the First, Second and Nineteenth Amendments of the Constitution.
“Did you study the Constitution?” Bentivolio asked Shulman.
“I went to law school,” Shulman answered.
“You went to law school,” Bentivolio continued. “Did you study the Constitution?” he asked, repeating his previous question.
“I believe I took Constitutional law, but I’m not prepared to take an exam at this time,” Shulman said jokingly. “Meaning I’ll answer any of your questions but I can’t promise that I’m an expert.”
“Well, you know the First, Second Amendment and one of my favorites, the 19th, right?” Bentivolio demanded. “You know those?”
Considering elementary school students can recite these Constitutional rights, it should have been an easy question for a lawyer to answer.
Yet, Shulman continued to struggle. “Excuse me,” he asked Bentivolio.
“You know those amendments,” Bentivolio continued his tirade. “The Constitutional amendments. You know the First, you know the Second, and you know the Nineteenth.”
“I don’t necessarily have the Constitution memorized, sir,” Shulman conceded.
“Ok, well, they’re pretty general in what each one is. Like the First Amendment is the freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances. First Amendment, right?”
“I really can’t recite the Constitution, sir,” Shulman admitted.
Watch Bentivolio quiz the former IRS head below.
h/t The Blaze
