ACORN Scores A Victory
ACORN has scored a court victory, successfully arguing that Congress’s defunding bill was a bill of attainder:
A judge has put an injunction on Congress’s ban on ACORN funding.
U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon today ruled to put a preliminary injunction on the Congressional resolution that barred ACORN or its affiliates from receiving federal funds, according to a press release from Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), who blasted the move.
Congress had acted in the wake of the scandal in which ACORN employees were caught on camera giving advice on how to break the law to two people posing as a pimp and a prostitute.ACORN has sought to overturn the ban, arguing that it’s a Bill of Attainder — a bill designed to penalize a specific person or entity — and therefore unconstitutional.
ACORN has had a pretty good week this week. First there were the revelations from the independent review that the infamous pimp-prostitute video had been heavily edited and now a court victory. Of course, our media is completely ignoring the story. I guess it’s just not as interesting as having young Republicans dressed in costume.
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A nice Chanukah gift to ACORN. Well deserved.
I love the liberal “take” on judicial decisions. In the 1980 presidential election litigation, the Democrat-laden Florida Supreme Court handed Gore a win…and the left praised the decision as “just, fair and honest.” That decision was oveturned by a Republican-majority US Supreme Court and you on the left became psychotic at the “unfairness” and the “selection” of the President.
Now…a Chicago-born, leftist Federal District Court judge in NY issues a TRO in a suit which SHOULD have been brought in New Orleans…and you on the left…once again…praise the “win” as a hallmark of fair, reasonable American jurisprudence. You guys went “forum shopping” — find a leftist judge–and now claim the moral high ground!
Liberal hypocrisy apparently knows no limit.
And I love the Conservative “history.” The Florida Supreme Court didn’t hand Gore a win, they ordered a recount. You know what a recount is… it’s that thing you were all FOR in the Franken/Coleman election.
All “The Chicago Way” thinks matters is that court injunctions go to one side or the other in the case. He makes no distinction between a court injunction based on a Constitutional principle (no bills of attainder), nor based on whether a law was passed because of false information (the interview splicing). He ignores that in 2000 the issue was not which Supreme Court would favor which candidate but whether votes ought to be counted completely and fairly in an election. That last comment by “The Chicago Way” shows a clear lack of moral compass.
Whether you’re on the right or left, you’d have to say this was a decision that at least reminds us that we are supposed to live in a country that values “a fair hearing”, believes in “innocent until proven guilty” and believe that McCarthyism was an ugly stain on our nation’s history.
ACORN was tried and convicted on Fox News based on highly edited tapes made by 2 young conservative filmakers and the MSM, Congress and the Obama White House all went along for the ride. What happened to ACORN this fall was a very scary thing for anyone-any organization or persons right or left-that values living in a fair and just society.
The 1980 presidential election? Nice try. Chicago Way is stupid even on the conservative scale.
out of context video splicing of ACORN? not newsworthy
out of context snippets of stolen emails on climate change? worthy of cancelling the Copenhagen conference