ACORN sues government over funding

From: The Washington Times | November 13, 2009 

ACORN sued the federal government Thursday, charging that efforts by Congress and President Obama to stop federal money from going to the community activist organization are unconstitutional because they single the group out for punishment. ACORN said Congress went too far when it wrote into a stopgap funding bill in October that the organization cannot receive any new money for federal contracts. "All this without a hearing and with no judicial adjudication of guilt," attorneys for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now said in papers filed in federal district court in New York. ACORN said being singled out ...

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