ACORN sues Congress for defunding it; Group says Congress bowed to Fox News

The law clearly states that there must be a trial before Congress acts to punish an individual or organization. No trial has yet occurred because there has been no investigation. There has been no investigation because there has been no law broken. This was a witch hunt instigated by right-wing activists (who DID actually break laws) and propogated by Fox "news" ad nauseum. Congress buckled under the weight of Fox's incessant PR attack.

For those who do not know, ACORN is (according to their website) "the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities". You can see why Fox would want to put them in the crosshairs.

Whether ACORN is guilty of acts that rise to a level of requiring defending remains to be seen.

However public perception of ACORN has been damaged so badly at this point by Fox news and the MSM and by unscrupulous "investigators" that restoring ACORN's reputation seems at this point an insurmountable task.

I think it is a sad turn of events but I just do not see how ACORN's image can possibly be rehabilitated.

After the "investigative journalists" left Acorn after recording their footage, did that branch call the police?

They haven't been punished in any way. They're just off the public dole, no more of our tax dollars. The Congress doesn't need any due process to end funding. No investigation, no punishment, just don't use our tax dollars for your schemes anymore, that's all.

I am pleased to see Acorn get their day in court....Now the truth can come out, about how Carl Rove started the witch hunt to discredit Acorn...The Republican Party is trying to suppress the vote.......Acorn registers millions of voters, who mostly vote for Democrats.....Acorn haven't been indicted on any crimes, only accused, of made up charges by Republicans..The Bush Administration fired several Federal Prosecutors because they wouldn't go along with their scheme to bring fraudulent charges against Acorn....Millions of low income Americans are dependant on the numerous services that are provided by Acorn..Only an extremely evil and vile person could and would, place politics, before the needs of America's needy.

maybe this will open up investigation of acorn's other money funneling activities.
We can only hope.

ACORN did it to themselves. Congress gives and Congress takes away...... ACORN'S reputation can't be saved, because they're a bunch of crooks.

dumbest thing in the world, whenever something happens that you don't like, especially when it's justified, you don't get to blame it on fox news. ACORN is a fraud. Why is there any debate over that. Morons

That's what ACORN gets for not having NUTS.

Damn.

lol their logo looks like a penis without balls... i think that was intentional

Due proscess bitches!!!! fox news will fall!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pretty much anything in politics that has "child prostitution" linked to it is a political thermonuclear attack.

Dems had to distance themselves, partly because they had no balls and partly because no amount of reasoning and logic could convince the idiotic masses that no such thing had gone on.

But in reality, ACORN didn't do anything wrong. This is exemplified by the right-wing actually, who to this day can't actually name a single "criminal" activity that was exposed by this group of assholes.

First off, this "expose" had to go to FIVE branches before anyone would talk to them and even then only got advice.

This is CLASSIC conservative "swiftboating." Just like blaming illegal immigrant votes that never happened in the '04 election and falsifying attacks against Kerry's military service, right-wing goons can create enough noise that people will believe it.

Of course, they're the real fucking crooks. No-bid contracts in Iraq, extraordinary rendition for torture, blatant violations of the constitution and federal law, reckless deregulation (especially of the environment) in the name of the "free market," CIA-sponsored terrorism and insanity (Iran-Contra anyone?), military intervention on behalf of U.S. corporations (Haiti in 2003 on behalf of Disney, just to name one) and blatant cronyism and corporate welfare in the form of tax loopholes and other bullshit scams.

ACORN is right on in this one, and if they grew some balls, so would Van Jones and Anita Dunn and the Obama admin. in general. Of course, the Dems are in on all of it too so that's never going to happen.

It's time this country treated the right-wing Reagan cabal for what it really is, a bunch of petulant, lying, criminal brats trying to bring the 1890's back. They need to be dragged into the 21st century by their hair, not reasoned or negotiated with.

A ridiculous lawsuit. There is no legal, and certainly no Constitutional, basis on which they, or anyone, should receive taxpayer funded government appropriations. There have been no legal charges raised that would fall into the realm of the Judiciary. Government appropriations are solely a function of the House of Representatives (at least according to the Constitution). ACORN can do anything they want, no one has challenged that, there is no infringement on their activities. They have only lost public funding by ruling of the House.

Why is it that they lost their funding just because a couple of bad seeds in the organization. This is so bad.

Uh, there have been MANY investigations AND indictments regarding ACORN activities all over the country which include voter fraud, embezzlement and a host of other charges for quite some time before Fox news was around all the while they were being funded. And, don't forget, while people on Fox brought to light the recent videos, other news outlets carried the story and ACORN dismissed the people involved....so that's an admission of guilt.

ACORN had MUCH to do with shoddy applications for the mortgages which knowingly were fraudulent. They also register primarily democrats and float campaign donations to democratic candidates - so WHY should congress be funding an organization to the tune of billions (they were about to be appropriated with billions) while they are a involved in fraud, voter fraud all over the country?

The voter fraud that never happened and the indictments that couldn't be made into convictions no matter how hard Bush's crony DOJ tried.

And the faulty mortgages were a wall street monster and no one else's. Interesting that conservatives first blame black people for the recession but, not entirely surprising.

Again, even if this swiftboat style bullshit story were true, it would just be cute stuff compared to what the right has done on a daily basis in this country for the past 28 years.

GOOO ! Acorn !