Leftist Judge orders ACORN funding restored

NewsReel (FrontPageNews) ^ | 3/11/2009 | Matthew Vadum

[Prospero]

Matthew Vadum NewsReal

If you thought you sent representatives and senators to Washington, D.C., to exercise the constitutionally mandated power of the purse — you’re wrong.

Silly you. You wasted all that time in civics class learning a whole bunch of outdated claptrap about separation of powers and the lawmaking process for nothing.

The spending power belongs to federal judges now, regardless of what that quaint little document called the U.S. Constitution says.

That’s what ACORN’s favorite federal judge, Nina Gershon of the Eastern District of New York ruled Wednesday.

In December Gershon, a Bill Clinton appointee, helped ACORN out by offering the Obama administration political cover by issuing a temporary injunction prohibiting Congress from cutting off funding for ACORN. She found that depriving ACORN of taxpayer dollars was an unconstitutional “bill of attainder” that singled out ACORN for punishment without trial. It’s a nonsensical argument unless you believe that cutting off funding –funding that no one has a right to– for an organized crime syndicate is somehow a punishment.

To give credit where it’s due, the Obama administration did the right thing and appealed the December ruling.

Now Nutty Nina’s made the ruling permanent and it’s not yet clear if the administration will appeal this latest ruling. (Here is the permanent injunction and the opinion and order she issued.)

Gershon showed a similar contempt for the legislative branch previously. In 1999 she ruled then-New York mayor Rudy Giuliani had no right to cut off city funding of the Brooklyn Museum of Art when it displayed dead animals and a painting of the Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung. Gershon’s not exactly courageous, by the way. She managed to get out of taking accused Al Qaeda terrorist Najibullah Zazi’s case when a courthouse computer randomly assigned it to her.

If this ruling remains undisturbed it will mean every parasitic leftist group in the country will have due process rights in the appropriations process. Congress will not be able to cut any group off for any reason. The rights of tax eaters will become paramount to the rights of taxpayers.

The ruling should be music to the ears of Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), a huge fan of ACORN who has given thousands of dollars over the years to the ACORN network. The thoroughly corrupt Nadler urged ACORN’s lawyer to sue the government, arguing that a ban on funding constituted a “bill of attainder.” Within weeks, ACORN took his advice.

The ruling could also appears to mean that ACORN and other leftist activist groups are eligible for up to $3.99 billion in federal funding included in President Obama’s $3.83 trillion fiscal 2011 budget blueprint.

The $3.99 billion comes from a congressional slush fund known as the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program, which is part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) $48.5 billion fiscal 2011 budget. CDBG grants, which are awarded to states and localities, flow indirectly to ACORN and similar groups that compete at the state and local level for grants.

[blueyon]

Well there is an election coming up in November that the left needs their services for....you know to counter act the people revolt.

[JustSurrounded]

Okay, fine, don't single out a group ... defund it all.

I couldn't find that bit about redistributing my tax money to special interest groups to work against me in my copy of the Constitution, anyway.

[Numbers Guy]

Following this pinhead’s logic, Congress may not end (or even lower) federal spending for any entity, anywhere, because that constitutes a “bill of attainder.”

Even more specifically, under her theory you could not eliminate funding for an earmark if the earmark became controversial. Suppose there was funding for the Lawrence Welk Museum (there once was). Suppose it became a public issue (which it did). Then suppose Congress stripped the funding because it had become controversial to fund the museum. Under her logic, that would be a "bill of attainder" and thus illegal.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Makes me wonder what they are “teaching” in law schools these days. Obama himself was a law professor, but didn’t know what he was talking about when he accused the SCOTUS of overturning a century old legal precedent in the state of the union address.

Apparently, they are making it up as they go.

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[Doogle]

clinton appointee

[mentor2k]

Ping

[WOBBLY BOB]

ACORN slated to get nearly $4 billion in Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget

To add to the list of outrageous earmarks in Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget, ACORN, the embezzlement-prone, voter-registration-fraud-plagued, leftist community organizing group, is slated to receive nearly $4 billion from a taxpayer-funded slush fund.

The money will come from the Community Development Block Grant, one of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s longest-running programs. The HUD Web site cryptically defines the grant’s purpose as providing “communities with resources to address a wide range of unique community development needs,” not a reassuring description given the group’s recent past history of aiding the community through gratuitous missappropriation of funds.

Has Congress already forgotten the Sept. 2009 ban it passed on ACORN and ACORN-afiliate funding? Or the video that led to the ban, footage showing ACORN employees urging individuals they thought were a prostitute and her pimp to set up a brothel and advising the pair on evading taxpaying? It would have had a hard time doing so, cosidering that ACORN is currently suing the federal government for the attempted ban.

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http://washingtontimes.com/weblogs/watercooler/2010/feb/10/acorn-slated-get-nearly-4-billion-obamas-fiscal-20/

what is being done to stop this?

[stephenjohnbanker]

I won’t get a good nights sleep until November.

[3722535r]

Just hope we do not awake to a nighmare come November....Words cannot express how widespread the corruption is in our United States OF America.....Lord help us all, literally.....

[stephenjohnbanker]

We need to block ACORN funding somehow.

[3722535r]

It’s troubling when you listen and watch all the clips of Obama that reveal who he is long before he was elected.....It was out there and the majority of voters (with the help of ACORN of course) voted him in anyway.....We have at the very least a Muslim sympathiser who is corrupt beyond words, and was tied at the hip with Acorn (even though he lied in his public denial) as president, it’s not very likely Acorn will disappear....We have on video how corrupt they are and it’s business as usual...

[Old Texan]

It wasn’t reported in the news. They are in on the deal.
I am hoping for everyone to take to the streets soon. We need to feed the roots of the tree of freedom with a little blood. Nuff said.

[Maurice Tift]

   The playbook of this administration is the ceaseless hustle.

  Surely, there's a Constitutional method of defunding a corrupt organization. Could Congress defund a host of other criminal organizations (Dept. of Agriculture, Education, Commerce, etc.) and not be accused of a issuing a Bill of Attainder?

[stephenjohnbanker]

ACORN disbanded before the verdict by this communist judge. Doesn’t the new entity have to requalify for these funds? ACORN is no more.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Obama himself was a law professor”

Obama has NEVER in his life been a law professor. He lied!

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

He taught constitutional law at U of Chicago 1992-2004, but like I said he doesn’t know what he is talking about.

[stephenjohnbanker]

He was NOT a professor. He was an “instructor”. That is a far cry from a professor. Obama lied once again. U of Chicago provost stated this in the Chicago newspapers.

[John O]

Wouldn’t usurping the authority of congress be an impeachable (and perhaps seditious) act?

[driftless2]

Someone should check this judge’s bank account to see if some recent, large deposits were made.