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Cobb

[kob]

noun

  1. Howell 1815–68, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1849–51.

  2. Irvin S(hrewsbury), 1876–1944, U.S. humorist and writer.

  3. Ty(rus Raymond) the Georgia Peach, 1886–1961, U.S. baseball player.



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IRS, Judge Jia M. Cobb, a Biden appointee, concluded what the nonprofit community has long known: The IRS rules concerning whether certain nonprofit organizations have engaged in too much political activity are unworkable and unconstitutionally vague.

Judge Cobb ruled that these twin deficiencies “exhibit signs of impermissible vagueness. Taken together, they cross the line into unconstitutionality.”

While Judge Cobb’s decision dealt a blow to the IRS, it also left the rules in limbo.

Cobb, dean of the Columbia graduate school of journalism, co-edited the 2021 updated “Essential Kerner Commission Report,” originally written after the 1965 Watts Riots, and his new book dives into the hypocrisies of Black life in America.

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Much of this work was first published in the New Yorker, where Cobb is a staff writer.

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