By GottaLaff
Congressman Jerrold Nadler, D-NY, the chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, denounced a Republican amendment adopted by the House of Representatives Thursday to deny all federal funds to the advocacy group the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) as blatantly unconstitutional and a threat to unpopular organizations everywhere. [...]Nadler said the Republican initiative, the Defund ACORN Act, backed by GOP House leader John Boehner, singles out a specific organization by name for exclusion from participating in any federal program, in direct violation of the Constitution’s prohibition against Bills of Attainder.
“Today’s Republican amendment is in blatant violation of the Constitution’s prohibition against Bills of Attainder,” Nadler said. “Congress must not be in the business of punishing individual organizations or people without trial, and that’s what this amendment does. Whatever one may think of an organization, the Constitution’s clear ban on Bills of Attainder is there for the protection of all of our liberties.” [...]
But Republicans vowed to take their crusade against the organization even further with Rep. Eric Cantor, the No. 2 House Republican, calling for a Justice Department probe.
ACORN has violated serious federal laws, and today the House voted to ensure that taxpayer dollars would no longer be used to fund this corrupt organization. All federal ties should be severed with ACORN, and the FBI should investigate its activity. This united Republican effort to defund ACORN is a victory for the rule of law and taxpayers across the country.
I'll late Jason take it from here.
Imagine that, our liberties aren't being protected, and the Rushpublic smell blood and want to further un-protect them. Who'da thunk it?
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