Move to cut ACORN funding ruled unconstitutional
By Adam Goldman
Associated Press
Friday, December 11, 2009
NEW YORK -- An effort by Congress to cut off funding to the community organizing group ACORN was unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Friday, handing the embattled group a legal victory.
U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon issued a preliminary injunction against the government, saying it is in the public's interest for the organization to continue receiving federal funding. Gershon found that ACORN had was "singled out by Congress for punishment" without "any judicial, or even administrative, process adjudicating guilt."
ACORN, or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, describes itself as an advocate for low-income and minority homebuyers and residents in communities served by its offices around the country.
But critics say it has violated the tax-exempt status of some of its affiliates by engaging in partisan political activities. ACORN has also been dogged by allegations of voter-registration fraud and embezzlement. And several of its offices were the subject of an embarrassing hidden-camera sting in which ACORN employees were shown advising a couple posing as a prostitute and her pimp to lie about her profession and launder her earnings.
(More here.)
Associated Press
Friday, December 11, 2009
NEW YORK -- An effort by Congress to cut off funding to the community organizing group ACORN was unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Friday, handing the embattled group a legal victory.
U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon issued a preliminary injunction against the government, saying it is in the public's interest for the organization to continue receiving federal funding. Gershon found that ACORN had was "singled out by Congress for punishment" without "any judicial, or even administrative, process adjudicating guilt."
ACORN, or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, describes itself as an advocate for low-income and minority homebuyers and residents in communities served by its offices around the country.
But critics say it has violated the tax-exempt status of some of its affiliates by engaging in partisan political activities. ACORN has also been dogged by allegations of voter-registration fraud and embezzlement. And several of its offices were the subject of an embarrassing hidden-camera sting in which ACORN employees were shown advising a couple posing as a prostitute and her pimp to lie about her profession and launder her earnings.
(More here.)
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1 Comments:
I wonder where in the Constitution ACORN funding was found? I believe this is what we call 'judicial activism' substituting judicial judgement for the legislative process.
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