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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsBan on ACORN Funding Overturned
By Ed Brayton
As I predicted, a federal judge has struck down a bill passed by Congress in September to cut off funding for ACORN, ruling that the law was an unconstitutional bill of attainder.
The U.S. government's move this fall to cut off funding to ACORN was unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Friday, handing the embattled group a legal victory.Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon issued the preliminary injunction against the government, saying it's in the public's interest for the organization to continue receiving federal funding.
Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 14, 2009 (boomark / email).
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