An appeals court today upheld a decision by Congress to cancel funding for the controversial ACORN activist group last year in the wake of a secret-video scandal.
The federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan overturned a lower-court ruling that said the move violated the Constitution by punishing ACORN without a trial.
"Despite that evidence of punitive intent on the part of some members of Congress...there is no congressional finding of guilt in this case," the three-judge panel ruled.
But the appeals court also sent the case back to Brooklyn federal Judge Nina Gershon to consider ACORN's claims its free-speech and due-process rights were violated.
New York PostI got this from Michelle Malkin's site, and their comment was, "Don't expect this on the front page of tomorrow's
New York Times." It's an AP byline, so I'll just give the link:
http://www.kold.com/global/story.asp?s=12975806&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
