Leftist Judge orders ACORN funding restored

NewsReel (FrontPageNews) ^ | 3/11/2009 | Matthew Vadum

[Prospero]

Matthew Vadum NewsReal

If you thought you sent representatives and senators to Washington, D.C., to exercise the constitutionally mandated power of the purse — you’re wrong.

Silly you. You wasted all that time in civics class learning a whole bunch of outdated claptrap about separation of powers and the lawmaking process for nothing.

The spending power belongs to federal judges now, regardless of what that quaint little document called the U.S. Constitution says.

That’s what ACORN’s favorite federal judge, Nina Gershon of the Eastern District of New York ruled Wednesday.

In December Gershon, a Bill Clinton appointee, helped ACORN out by offering the Obama administration political cover by issuing a temporary injunction prohibiting Congress from cutting off funding for ACORN. She found that depriving ACORN of taxpayer dollars was an unconstitutional “bill of attainder” that singled out ACORN for punishment without trial. It’s a nonsensical argument unless you believe that cutting off funding –funding that no one has a right to– for an organized crime syndicate is somehow a punishment.

To give credit where it’s due, the Obama administration did the right thing and appealed the December ruling.

Now Nutty Nina’s made the ruling permanent and it’s not yet clear if the administration will appeal this latest ruling. (Here is the permanent injunction and the opinion and order she issued.)

Gershon showed a similar contempt for the legislative branch previously. In 1999 she ruled then-New York mayor Rudy Giuliani had no right to cut off city funding of the Brooklyn Museum of Art when it displayed dead animals and a painting of the Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung. Gershon’s not exactly courageous, by the way. She managed to get out of taking accused Al Qaeda terrorist Najibullah Zazi’s case when a courthouse computer randomly assigned it to her.

If this ruling remains undisturbed it will mean every parasitic leftist group in the country will have due process rights in the appropriations process. Congress will not be able to cut any group off for any reason. The rights of tax eaters will become paramount to the rights of taxpayers.

The ruling should be music to the ears of Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), a huge fan of ACORN who has given thousands of dollars over the years to the ACORN network. The thoroughly corrupt Nadler urged ACORN’s lawyer to sue the government, arguing that a ban on funding constituted a “bill of attainder.” Within weeks, ACORN took his advice.

The ruling could also appears to mean that ACORN and other leftist activist groups are eligible for up to $3.99 billion in federal funding included in President Obama’s $3.83 trillion fiscal 2011 budget blueprint.

The $3.99 billion comes from a congressional slush fund known as the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program, which is part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) $48.5 billion fiscal 2011 budget. CDBG grants, which are awarded to states and localities, flow indirectly to ACORN and similar groups that compete at the state and local level for grants.

[Prospero]

The playbook of this administration is the ceaseless hustle. Those of us who love freedom must neither sleep nor get tired.

[Jet Jaguar]

ACORN Ping

FReep mail me if you want on/off the list.

[denydenydeny]

Following this pinhead’s logic, Congress may not end (or even lower) federal spending for any entity, anywhere, because that constitutes a “bill of attainder.”

Thanks, Bill, for leaving this turd floating in the American judicial system.

[americanophile]

What exactly do you have to do to get cut off from federal funding? What egregious crime must one commit, what heinous act? Is it even possible?

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

Sarah Palin -- the only known antidote to the venemous snake bite known as judicial overstepping.
BTW, is this Nina Gershon one of those 'wise Latinas' with a mail-order law degree, whose career advancement is directly proportional to her tireless efforts to defend Leftist politicians from criminal and civil prosecution?

[tcrlaf]

Your own tax dollars are being used to destroy your way of life, and support the Democrat Party.

How did we get to this point?

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

How did we get to this point?

By nominating RINO's.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Bummer chickened out, because he himself as head of the executive branch of government had the authority to un-name ACORN from Federal funding, that branch having named ACORN for it in the first place.

[eyedigress]

That is their wish. They miss one of my tenants. An angry man never sleeps. I hope many of us get that.

[NoRedTape]

How did pockets of this Great Country get so stupid?

[oprahstheantichrist]

"How did we get to this point?"

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[freekitty]

Does she know it’s not nice to tamper with the Constitution?

Perhaps we should change a few of the ways these judges are selected.

[drubyfive]

I thought Nina Gershon was a bimbo Clinton was boinking, not an old hag he put on the court.

[RSmithOpt]

I love it when judges create spending legislation ath the federal level.

[Prospero]

Now it came about when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all that Solomon desired to do, that the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon. The LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

"As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and will keep My statutes and My ordinances, then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, just as I promised to your father David, saying, 'You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.'

"But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

"And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'

"And they will say, 'Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore the LORD has brought all this adversity on them.'"

- 1 Kings 9:1-9

[Liberty Valance]

[wastoute]

“Shocking!”

[ez]

What exactly do you have to do to get cut off from federal funding? What egregious crime must one commit, what heinous act?

Pray in public.

[investigateworld]

Sounds like something right out of Atlas Shrugged.

[Quickgun]

Maybe both......