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Judge Orders Permanent Injunction to Block ACORN Defunding

Baltimore You can’t find this piece in the Journal, Times, or Post. Soon it will show up in more conservative blogs with appropriate conspiratorial references and asides.  Count on the misquotes and false attributions being numerous, but reading the decision by U.S. Federal Judge Nina Gershon, one cannot miss the decision’s clarity or thinly [...]

March 11th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: ACORN, Ideas and Issues | One comment

ACORN Defunding Bill Unconstitutional

Dallas             

Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Reform in New York which represented ACORN

Federal Judge Nina Gershon ruled unequivocally that the Congressional defunding restrictions on ACORN and all affiliated organizations were unconstitutional by breaching the U.S. Constitution’s prohibitions on Bills of Attainder and “ex post facto” laws.   Reading the decision this morning, I [...]

December 12th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: ACORN, Ideas and Issues | One comment