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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Alpha Mare on November 13, 2009, 08:03:23 AM
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NEW YORK -- ACORN has been cut off by banks, the government and most of its private foundation funders, severely hampering its housing operations and raising the possibility that it will not survive in its current form, according to a lawsuit the group filed Thursday against the U.S. government.
The lawsuit claims that Congress' decision to drop all funding to the group and its affiliates was unconstitutional because it punitively targeted an individual organization.
The law that halted ACORN's federal funding took effect Oct. 1 and was extended at the end of the month. On Dec. 18, it will either expire or be extended again.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Brooklyn federal court by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of ACORN and two affiliates, seeks reinstatement of the funds.
The Congressional Research Service warned in a September report that the law taking away ACORN's funding might not be viewed as regulatory and could be judged punitive and unconstitutional. But some legislators disagreed.
"Cutting off somebody from receiving federal funding does not meet the definition of punishment the way the Supreme Court has laid it out," Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said Thursday
The lawsuit names the U.S. government, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the director of the Office of Management and Budget and the secretary of the Treasury Department as defendants.
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/us_acorn_lawsuit/2009/11/12/285620.html
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Bill Quigley, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, defended the lawsuit. "Congress is supposed to pass a law of general application to everyone," he said.
The lawsuit names the U.S. government, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the director of the Office of Management and Budget and the secretary of the Treasury Department as defendants.
Oh, FFS. :banghead:
So now it's illegal for Congress to withdraw the same funds that they'd originally allocated - or intended to allocate?
Doesn't this fit the definition of a frivolous lawsuit? And the plaintiff is fined by the courts for stupidity?
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Okay, dumbass, how about the assertion that funding them in the first place violated the Constitution? There, all square and even again. Happy now?
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I hope anyone involved in ACORN is thrown under the bus
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I hope anyone involved in ACORN is thrown under the bus
Or a steamroller.
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Or a steamroller.
Even better yet :bow:
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Wait, a bunch of Dummies think they're entitled to someone else's money????///??11!!1oneone!!eleventy!!!!11!
I, for one, am incredibly shocked. :uhsure:
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They'll get a bailout.
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They'll get a bailout.
They'll disappear as ACORN, and simultaneously re-appear as Øbama's "Civillian National Security Force", as large and well funded as the Military.
(http://libcom.org/files/images/history/panthers.jpeg) (http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Past_Events/images/panther_march1.jpg)
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Wait, a bunch of Dummies think they're entitled to someone else's money????///??11!!1oneone!!eleventy!!!!11!
I, for one, am incredibly shocked. :uhsure:
"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money". - Margaret Thatcher
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I can understand the claim to ex post facto but I do not think it's valid.
ACORN has no legal right to federal funds. A punishment would be depriving them of something they were entitled to have. If the funds had already been disbursed and congress ordered their return I would perhaps be more sympathetic on strictly legalistic grounds but as far as ACORN as a whole being crushed...
:cheersmate:
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:racist: