Posted on 08/07/2005 8:33:56 PM PDT by Jay777
The Center for Reclaiming America for Christ has uncovered documents revealing that the Florida Supreme Court is responsible for helping to fund the ACLU of Florida — using interest from legal trust funds generated by unsuspecting home buyers, heirs, and legal awards and settlements. Between 1990 and 1997, the Florida Bar Foundation (FBF), a creation of the Florida Supreme Court, provided more than $600,000 to help pay the salary of the ACLU of Florida’s legal director.
Incredibly, the Florida Supreme Court approved these appropriations, despite the fact that the Court often issues rulings in cases argued by the ACLU’s legal director. One would assume that such funding would create a conflict of interest — but not in the eyes of the Court. In a letter faxed to the Center, the FBF admitted that every instance in which it offered funding to the ACLU of Florida, it was “specifically approved from time to time by the Supreme Court of Florida.”
The Mechanics of IOTA Accounts
This is further evidence of the Court’s skewed ideological agenda. In 1956, the Florida Bar Foundation was established by the Florida Supreme Court in order to provide legal assistance to the poor. Sadly, at least in this case, the Court used the funds of unsuspecting Floridians to promote a radical ideological agenda.
In 1981, in an effort to increase the level of funding for the Foundation, the Florida High Court adopted the nation’s first IOTA (interest on trust account) program. Under the IOTA program, all monies that change hands via an attorney (i.e. home purchases, lawsuit awards, probate accounts, divorce settlements, etc.) are to be temporarily deposited in a pooled interest-bearing account. Chances are: If you settled a lawsuit, inherited money,...
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Would you like me to post your idea on my website? Why didn't you just ask?
I've emailed O'Reilly with so much stuff, and he always ignores me. Maybe if enough of us freepers were to email him this he might report on it?
I'm sorry, I was taken with the idea of e-mailing a Congressman and got distracted :-)
Please, by all means, go ahead. Just reference it to grey_whiskers at FreeRepublic.com.
Cheers!
I'm sorry, I was taken with the idea of e-mailing a Congressman and got distracted :-)
Please, by all means, go ahead. Just reference it to grey_whiskers at FreeRepublic.com.
Cheers!
nice work. stories like these will stop the gravy train. keep it up. God bless your efforts.
More grubworms under the rocks.
Tax money is used to pay public defenders. Is anyone outraged?
It should be on the news.
"Incredibly, the Florida Supreme Court approved these appropriations, despite the fact that the Court often issues rulings in cases argued by the ACLU’s legal director."
Talk about a conflict of interest. What a bunch of Gore loving commies.
ACLU has become so outrageous in its actions that it needs to be investigated.
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Florida is a sick place and our tax dollars are paying for it. Dr. Mengela made victims into lampshades, why not China turning them into exhibits?
Bodies, the exhibit is next door to where Sami Al Arian taught at USF and he's now on trial in Tampa Federal Court.
George Soros, the ACLU, atheists of Florida, and scientology mixes with the GOP in Florida which gives "red state" a completely different interpretation.
Even Jeb's appointees are lefties but Cantero the lefty got in the Fla Supremes because he's hispanic and the GOP is always working on expanding their base in the hispanic community. Mostly everything the Bush brothers do is for political purposes.
bttt. nasty infestation in Fla.
There's another anti-ACLU org that is telemarketing. I'd rather put a freeper's link on my web page any day.
Tampa Tribune from www.tbo.com
The pennies collected are supposed to go to "public education" and "public works".
It is not supposed to go to fund communist organizations.
(selling the rope to hang them)
If I'm not mistaken, I remember a group of lawyers who either did challenge or were going to challenge the constitutionality of IOTA accounts on free speech grounds, I think.
Anyone know how that turned out?
Jeb is going to appoint 51 judges this year.
The problem is that the pool of potential judges is dominated by left leaning lawyers and lawyers who pay money to democrat causes.
We finally got the nominations for judges changed it is just that change in the "law culture" is slooooooooooow.
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