U.S. District Judge: Feds Must Fund ACORN

So, now judges, not elected officials control the purse strings in Washington? Given her language and rulings, ACORN will end up suing for damages before the Left gets finished with its dirty work.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge who found it unconstitutional that Congress tried to cut funding to the activist group ACORN has rejected a government request to change her mind and has ordered government agencies to make it clear the funding isn't blocked.

In a written ruling Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon made permanent her conclusion last year that the cutoff of funding was unconstitutional. She ordered all federal agencies to put the word out about it.

The Brooklyn judge said ACORN was punished by Congress without the enactment of administrative processes to decide if money had been handled inappropriately. She said the harm to ACORN's reputation continues because the government never rescinded its advice to withhold funding after it was distributed to "hundreds, if not thousands, of recipients."

Comments

[FatBaldnSassy]

An ugly but predictable result of 80 years of leftist judicial appointments. Does anyone really believe that the Left will go quietly into the night?

[StevefromMKE]

Hey Bob, curious, what is it that you and your cronies on the left really want for this country? Do you want us like Sweden or China?

[pablo panadero]

Since when does receiving Federal funds become a right? Congress can choose to fund or de-fund at their own discretion. That is the constitutional process, period. Get this nut off the bench.

[Rob Crawford]

WTF are you babbling about, Bob?

I take it you support the idea that judges can now order taxes be spent as they please, ignoring Congressional action? When did you decide the Constitution was no longer the law of the land?

[mojo]

Cut the budget for her court.

[StevefromMKE]

Oh, and Bob, O'Keefe is going after HUD as well...get your faux anger ready again cupcake...

[buckjohnson]

Did anyone bother to read her decision? Congress act was sloppily written and any jurist could see that. It is almost Congress did this whole thing for show, as they had to know in would not stand up to Constitutional and judicial scrutiny.