Is ACORN desperate?
November 16, 2009 | ACORN | Comments (0)From the story:
ACORN isn’t going down without a fight. The group had no problems accepting money earmarked by Congress, but it has a big problem with Congress exercising its same power to take that money away. Thursday, ACORN filed a lawsuit saying Congress violated the Constitution when it voted to pull money from the organization.Attorneys for ACORN argue the law that pulled funding from ACORN’s education, housing and transportation programs amounts to a bill of attainder, basically an act that punishes a person or group without a trial. The constitutional provision against bills of attainder traditionally has been associated with death penalty cases and the seizure of private property.
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