Posted on 11/12/2009 12:09:02 PM PST by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK – ACORN has filed a lawsuit claiming that Congress violated the Constitution when it passed a law cutting off federal funding to the organization.
The Center for Constitutional Rights filed the lawsuit on ACORN's behalf Thursday in Brooklyn federal court. It claims the law was unconstitutional because it punitively targeted an individual organization.
Messages for comment left at the White House and the federal agencies named in the suit were not immediately returned.
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ACORN is unconstitutional.
It seems they are implying that ACORN has a constitutional right to federal tax money?
They got this a little backwards. Funding was Un-Constitutional to begin with. Cutting funding is just enforcing the Constitution.
I believe that these guys who work for the Center for Constitutional Rights....need to go back and actually study Constitutional rights.
That is EXACTLY what they are claiming.
And being unconstitutional, when does acorn start paying the country back.
How was the funding in the first place Constitutional?
Huh?
Talk about irony. LOL!
No. Funding them in the FIRST place was un-Constitutional.
Is not the government funding of a private, partisan organization with taxpayer money unconstitutional?
ACORN has constitutional right to funding? lol!
They who trample the Constitution now want to pick it up and dust it off in their favor...
definition of “Bill of Attainder”:
“These clauses of the Constitution are not of the broad, general nature of the Due Process Clause, but refer to rather precise legal terms which had a meaning under English law at the time the Constitution was adopted. A bill of attainder was a legislative act that singled out one or more persons and imposed punishment on them, without benefit of trial. Such actions were regarded as odious by the framers of the Constitution because it was the traditional role of a court, judging an individual case, to impose punishment.” William H. Rehnquist.
BINGO! We have a winner.
And it’s on a number of levels, not just one.
Being funded by the government in the first place...
Registering as if an arm of the Democrat party...
Fraudulent Registrations...
Intimidation at the polls...
As free pass on all this...
ACORN funding is unconstitutional!
What was unconstitutional was federal funding of this preferentially targeted individual organization. Eliminating the funding was a corrective measure.
Where is MY funding from congress acorn? I would like to sit on my lazy fat butt and play politics all day for taxpayer dollars but I have a brain, a conscience and a work ethic.
If you need money then go look under your work boots. You lazy, reparation seeking,
over breeding, racist scumbags have had a free ride for far too long.
Get a job!!!
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