Posted on 11/13/2009 3:33:56 AM PST by markomalley
Activist group and organized crime syndicate ACORN has a constitutional right to defraud the people of the United States it claims in a federal lawsuit.
Actually, the lawsuit, filed with the assistance of the allegedly terrorist-funded Center for Constitutional Rights, doesn't use the word fraud, but that's what it amounts to because ACORN argues in the document that it has a right to taxpayer dollars. I kid you not.
In the action filed in U.S. District Court ACORN plays the victim -- as always.
ACORN claims the congressionally approved cutoff of federal funding that expires Dec. 18 violates the Constitution's prohibition on bills of attainder, along with ACORN's free speech and due process rights.
Of course, due process is a rather specific legal concept that applies to judicial proceedings, rather than the lawmaking process. A bill of attainder singles out an individual or group for punishment without trial.
Is it punishment for ACORN to be denied public funds? That implies the group has the right to receive those funds.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
They don’t have to win. The Justice Department mearly needs to conceed and or not challenge the suit. Or it could be as easy as not showing up and the Plaintif is awarded judgement.
They do appear to be after a "payday".
The attitude is pure ghetto and street thug.
“The attitude is pure ghetto and street thug.”
It worked for Wall Street.
Drunk arrogance for our money!
This sounds like ACORN thinks it has a right to TAX.
We need to concentrate on getting their boss’s boss’s boss out of the White House As Soon As Possible. When that’s done, and not until then, it will be fairly comparatively easy to drain the swamp — and drown the swamp rats!
File in the right district, and their win would be upheld at the appealate level.
This is why is was so important to have the judicial appointment reins during the Dubya years.
But I'll bite on the Bill of Attainder argument. Congress has no business funding any non-government organization for any purpose, and in an ideal world, it would cut all such funding off.
Amen brother!
This has always been a way for the Dimmicrats to fund their friends.
Corrie put her body in the path of the bulldozer, hoping to obstruct its progress. The Israeli government claimed the tragic event was an accident. But even if the Israelis were covering up their own wrongdoing, how would that make Caterpillar responsible for Corrie's death? CCR doesn't care.
Why these transparently frivorlous law suits are not thrown out of court and the lawyers fined for bringing them to court amazes me.
And by the way it wan no accident. Corrie obviously committed suicide.
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” James Madison.
ACORN is the edifice of the Cloward-Piven strategy.
I do believe that you have created the new acronym for our mutual feelings
OOT WHASAP! If we say like the commercials we could even say it in the 'hoods without fear (at least of being overheard)!
If we wanted to use it, we’d surely want “...totally out...” to become TOOT WHASAP! It might drive libs crazi-
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