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ACORN back in business?
Posted by:
Price
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Date: December 13, 2009 01:51PM
Move to cut ACORN funding ruled unconstitutional
Can someone explain the bolded piece? You did bad things, your funding was cut because of this - how's it unconstitutional??
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The U.S. government's move this fall to cut off funding to ACORN was unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Friday, handing the embattled group a legal victory.
U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon issued the preliminary injunction against the government, saying it's in the public's interest for the organization to continue receiving federal funding.
ACORN claimed in its lawsuit that Congress' decision to cut off its funding was unconstitutional because it punitively targeted an individual organization.
Can someone explain the bolded piece? You did bad things, your funding was cut because of this - how's it unconstitutional??
Re: ACORN back in business?
Posted by:
Bonfire
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Date: December 13, 2009 04:39PM
Well, I did see this. Could be GOP scare tactics, but who knows. Check it out
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/12/10/bradley-blakeman-obama-office-personnel-management/
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/12/10/bradley-blakeman-obama-office-personnel-management/
Re: ACORN back in business?
Posted by:
Gravis
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Date: December 13, 2009 09:55PM
if congress wants to do something, they will manage to do it one way or another. the problem they always have is figuring out what exactly they want to do.
"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."
"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."
Re: ACORN back in business?
Posted by:
Radiophile
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Date: December 14, 2009 04:19PM
You can not make laws that apply to one person or one organization. This was evident when the bone-head made the rule - they new if challenged, it would be overturned. It was politics and grandstanding to make the rule - pure and simple.
Re: ACORN back in business?
Posted by:
Registered Voter
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Date: December 14, 2009 04:31PM
Yeah well, so far it is a "Preliminary Injunction"
Don't jump to any serious conclusions yet. The likelihood is they filed the motion in the court they felt would be most favorably inclined to their petition to start. Nothing final has been decided by any means.
If you can’t model the past, where you know the answer pretty well, how can you model the future? - William Happer Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University
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U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon issued the preliminary injunction against the government, saying it's in the public's interest for the organization to continue receiving federal funding.
ACORN claimed in its lawsuit that Congress' decision to cut off its funding was unconstitutional because it punitively targeted an individual organization.
Gershon said in her ruling that ACORN had raised a "fundamental issue of separation of powers. They have been singled out by Congress for punishment that directly and immediately affects their ability to continue to obtain federal funding, in the absence of any judicial, or even administrative, process adjudicating guilt."
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Don't jump to any serious conclusions yet. The likelihood is they filed the motion in the court they felt would be most favorably inclined to their petition to start. Nothing final has been decided by any means.
If you can’t model the past, where you know the answer pretty well, how can you model the future? - William Happer Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University