Yes, Congress has a right to defund the group.  From the story:

A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a decision that had barred Congress from withholding funds from ACORN, the activist group driven to ruin by scandal and financial woes.

The ruling by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan reversed a decision by a district court judge in Brooklyn that found Congress had violated the group’s rights by punishing it without a trial.

Congress cut off ACORN’s federal funding last year in response to allegations the group engaged in voter registration fraud and embezzlement and violated the tax-exempt status of some of its affiliates by engaging in partisan political activities.

Has someone tried a wooden stake through the heart?  Not matter how much they’re investigated or indicted, ACORN won’t die.  The latest from Big Government: 

The organized crime syndicate known as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which has been making much ado about its feigned withdrawal from the national political stage, continues doing business as usual.

Proof comes in the form of an email, which went out to ACORN supporters on April 16 and which came two weeks after ACORN’s faked dissolution on April Fool’s Day as a national organization.

ACORN folds.

ACORN is re-branding.

Could this be true?  Is ACORN really in line to get billions from the federal government?

ProPublica, the Left-wing independent news organization funded by the Sandler Foundation, (yes, Herb and Marion Sandler, the subprime mortgage billionaires) has the audacity to criticize the payday lending industry.   Click here to read about the Sandlers and their connection to ACORN.

The guy who helped bust ACORN is in trouble:

GAO to investigate the radical group’s use of federal funds, according to FoxNews.com.

From the American Spectator:

On Tuesday evening the House Appropriations Committee rejected on a party line vote of 9 to 5 an amendment offered by Rep. Tom Latham (R-Iowa) that would have blocked federal funding of the radical advocacy group.

The amendment was needed because the Obama administration thumbed its nose at a provision in spending legislation that banned ACORN funding until the end of next week.

Congress — and possibly Citigroup — may be gearing up to start funding the organized crime syndicate ACORN again. The current federal funding ban expires Dec. 18.

Dare to dream.  Rep. Darrell Issa does.