Detroit Metro Times: Acorn fights back

[marmar]

Acorn fights back

If you are like me, you probably don’t know what a “bill of attainder” is. At least I didn’t know until I began looking at the lawsuit the Center for Constitutional Rights just filed against the U.S. Government on behalf of the group Acorn.

Turns out a bill of attainder refers to a legislative act that singles out an individual or group for punishment without a trial — an act prohibited by the U.S. Constitution.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in a Brooklyn, New York federal court, alleges that when Congress cut off all funding to Acorn (an acronym for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) beginning Oct. 1 without first conducting an investigation or holding a hearing, the group was unfairly targeted for the type of punitive action the Constitution is supposed to protect against.

The Congressional Research Service, in an independent analysis, previously warned Congress that the so-called Defund Acorn Act appeared to indeed be a bill of attainder because it specifically targeted the organization. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.metrotimes.com/blog/newsblawg.asp?perm=911

[tblue]

1. Good for them. This whole thing pissed me off to no end. nt

[paulsby]

5. i support acorn in this endeavour

it IS a bill of attainder.

[mn9driver]

2. Sevral hundred conservative blog rants about this...

Apparently the wingnuts dislike our Constitution nearly as much as they dislike ACORN.
:eyes:

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Great news!! Hope they blow the repukes right out of the water...

as well as the cowardly dems who went along.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Thom Hartman talked about this after this stupid law was passed