Have you ever heard of "The Law That Never Was", a claim that the 16th Amendment was not legally ratified, and what are your thoughts on it?

According to research done by a former criminal investigator, William Benson, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution was not legally approved. His research showed errors, duplicity and probably outright fraud in the ratification process for the amendment. Attempts to prove it in court have been thwarted. Most judges just seem to cover their ears, close their eyes and go “lalalalalalala” or rely on prior courts that have done the same thing when it is brought up. In general, the courts seem to state that his information is unproven at best and bogus at worst but no one seems inclined to actually investigate.

One district court “noted that the errors found by Benson had already been investigated by Secretary of State Knox at the time of ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, and had been determined to be insignificant.”, relying on the word of the person who in all probability perpetrated the fraud to verify its validity.

Now, I realize that Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution allows the federal government to collect taxes and that even the elimination of the 16th Amendment would not change that BUT if we are, as some claim, “A Nation of Laws” should we not demand that every “I” be dotted and “T“crossed, particularly in such a document as the Constitution?

Why has Mr. Bensons claim (he has a book and a multitude of certified, notarized documents) not be investigated by an independent panel?

Who would have the authority to do so? Congress? The Judiciary? The Executive? Jeremy Scahill and Glen Greenwald?

Why haven’t our strict Constitutionalist, States-rights congressmen like Ted Cruz and Paul Ryan formed a committee to investigate?
Wiki article on subject
interview with Benson

And there are many more on line.