By THE NEW YORK TIMES Did you really think that the most connected community organizing group was not going to call in its poltical favors from the party it helped get elected? And one of their previous lawyers, a constitutional scholar now has a …
Read Original Story: Acorn Sues Over Funding Vote in House – New York Times
NEW YORK — ACORN has been cut off by banks, the government and most of its private foundation funders, severely hampering its housing operations and raising the possibility that it will not survive in its current form, according to a lawsuit the group …
Read Original Story: ACORN lawsuit raises question: Can it survive? – The Associated Press
Bertha Lewis, ACORN’s chief executive officer, speaks to reporters. The group is suing the government, accusing it of unconstitutionally stripping it of federal funding. Photo: AP A non-profit organization filed a …
Read Original Story: ACORN sues over funding cut – Politico
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has filed a lawsuit claiming that the United States Congress violated the constitutional rights of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) when it voted to ban further federal funding…
Read Original Story: ACORN Sues US Congress – About – News & Issues (blog)
NEW YORK, Nov. 12 (UPI) — ACORN, the community group that has become a target of conservative attacks, filed a lawsuit Thursday in New York to get its federal funding restored. In court papers, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now …
Read Original Story: Acorn sues to reverse funding cutoff – United Press International
An embattled group of community organizers sanctioned by Congress in September is now suing the federal government for stripping its funds in an unconstitutional way. House Republicans led the charge just two months …
Read Original Story: ACORN launches lawsuit in response to House's 'bill of attainder' – The Hill
In your guest column, you asked Congress, “What could ACORN possibly do that is as bad as what you do?” While I certainly cannot defend this Congress (I believe it is corrupt and out of touch with real people who have real problems) …
Read Original Story: ACORN as corrupt, uncaring as most unprincipled representative – News Sentinel
(New York, NY) — The controversial Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN, has sued the US government claiming Congress had no right to cut off the group’s federal funding. The non-profit that claims more than 400-thousand …
Read Original Story: ACORN Sues US Government – MyStateline.com
Today the Center for Constitutional Rights sued the federal government on behalf of ACORN. They are alleging that Congressional efforts to defund ACORN constitute an unconstitutional Bill of Attainder. This tired argument has been …
Read Original Story: Meet the Ratners: Defending ACORN is Their Family Business – Big Government (blog)
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The scandal-hit liberal grass-roots group ACORN sued the US government on Thursday, saying it did not have the right to cut off ACORN’s federal funding because the group had not been convicted of a crime. …
Read Original Story: Government sued for defunding scandal-hit ACORN – Reuters
