Posted on 03/10/2010 11:28:03 PM PST by Prospero
By the way, Robert Reich went on tv for over 2 years, claiming to be a “professor” at Harvard. Harvard sent him a “cease & desist” letter, promising to fire him if he stated this again.
She is an old hag he put on the court BECAUSE she was a bimbo he was boinking
OK, point taken. Kind of like the guy on Seinfeld who insisted on being called “maestro” because he conducted the Policemen’s Benevolent Association Orchestra.
Still, shocking that he was president of harvard law review and teaching constitutional law.
This is a better link:
Your link merely brings up a rolling page of articles, sure to miss this article shortly.
v The Harvard Law Review was handed to him due to heavy political unrest on campus vis a vis black professorships. Right place, right time. Obama wins the lottery!
She looks like Gilbert Gottfried.
According to her reasoning, apparently, it isn’t possible. I didn’t read her opinion, but if she’s saying that cutting off funding to a specific group is a bill of attainder, then there is no crime or act one can commit. Congress cannot pass any bill of attainder for any crime - Article I, Sec. 9 provides for no exceptions.
If Congress was trying to take back money that was already given to ACORN or to increase taxes on ACORN specifically, which is what they were trying to do to the AIG executives, I would actually agree with her. If the government wants to take anyone’s money because they committed a crime or breached a contract, then that’s what the courts are for.
However, Congress did nothing of the sort here. They cut off ACORN from money which hadn’t even been appropriated yet, which ACORN has absolutely no property interest in. The idea that this is a bill of attainder is absurd. Whether someone ought to receive federal money is not a justiciable issue for the courts.
Be a Republican, a Conservative, or support either of those causes.
Pelosi’s and Obama’s slip out, as planned.
You have to know that Pelosi and Reid told the Dims that this was going to happen when they voted to strip ACORN of its funding, thus allowing very strong ACORN supporters to vote for it.
Pay your taxes.
The people over at ACORN working against everything you believe in sure need the money. :)
I do not see how a judge has that power
Gershon, Nina
Born 1940 in Chicago, IL
Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
Nominated by William J. Clinton on October 18, 1995, to a seat vacated by Leonard D. Wexler; Confirmed by the Senate on July 30, 1996, and received commission on August 1, 1996. Assumed senior status on October 16, 2008.
U.S. Magistrate, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1976-1996
Education:
Cornell University, B.A., 1962
Yale Law School, LL.B., 1965
Professional Career:
Staff attorney, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Mental Health Information Service, 1966-1968
Assistant corporation counsel, Appeals Division, New York City Law Department, 1968-1969; 1970-1972
Professor of law and political science, University of California, San Diego, 1969-1970
Attorney, New York City Law Department, 1972-1976
Chief, Federal Appeals Division, 1972-1975
Chief, Consumer Protection Division, 1975-1976
Adjunct professor of law, Cardozo School of Law, 1986-1988
Race or Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
There will be Hell to pay..
The problem here is that Congress passed a law specifically to affect ACORN, and named it as such. That is where the problem is. If they could find a category to defund in general, and ACORN were in that category, they could Constitutionally enact that into law.
Or id ACORN has been found guilty of ANYTHING in a court of law, then they could defund it.
But you cannot cut off an organization from an opportunity that you are giving to anyone else just because you do not like THEM. That is what was judged unconstitutional.
I guess this judge never read the 10th amendment. We need something like the Judicial Reform Act of 1802 to clean this mess up.
Totally agreed.
I wasn’t aware that Acorn had disbanded.....I’m sure the QUALITY EMPLOYEES will figure out some way to keep the money flowing under the countless sur-names that still are more or less Acorn related.....Americans losing jobs and homes and billions of our dollars re-distributed to corrupt entities .....But you don’t pay your taxes and your money is frozen or you go to jail......SPEECHLESS....FRUSTRATING....
“I wasn’t aware that Acorn had disbanded..”
Just under a new name. The name was posted here a few days ago, but I can’t recall it.
Here it is!
“The con goes like this: ACORN is trying to pass off various state chapters as supposedly new groups independent of ACORN. In this rebranding exercise state chapters are declaring that they have separated from the national ACORN group and reestablishing themselves as independent nonprofit entities.
At least four dummy nonprofit corporations have emerged from the rebranding process in recent months.
They are the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, New York Communities for Change, New England United for Justice (Massachusetts) and Arkansas Community Organizations. All four groups operate out of ACORN offices and are run by ACORN staffers. The president of New England United for Justice, Maude Hurd, just happens to be the 20-year national president of ACORN.
“At least four dummy nonprofit corporations have emerged from the rebranding process in recent months”
There you go.....It’s like being tied down in a corner and helplessly watching your family being destroyed.....
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